Round 1 Emily Lloyd @poesygalore Little eLit Jennifer Vincent @mentortexts Teach Mentor Texts Sarah Towle @TowleSarah Sarah Towle: History Turned On Jill Goodman @queenofappland appoLearning Cathy Potter @cppotter The Nonfiction Detectives Round 2 Jason Boog @Jasonboog Born Reading Carrie Waterson @indyplkids Ready to Read Stephanie Charlefour @scharle4 Love Life Read Erin Warzala @fallingflannel Falling Flannelboards Jodie Rodriguez @growingbbb Growing Book …
2015 Easy Reader/Early Chapter Judges
Round 1 Katie Fitzgerald @mrskatiefitz Story Time Secret Juliana Lee @JulianaLeeWrite Juliana Lee, Crafting Stories Susan Murray @semurray From Tots to Teens Mia Wenjen @PragmaticMom Pragmatic Mom Jennifer Wharton Jean Little Library Round 2 Emily Andrus @literaryhoots Literary Hoots Freya Hooper @onegreatbook One Great Book Amy Johnson @sunlitpages Sunlit Pages …
2015 Fiction Picture Book Judges
First Round Sandy Brehl @pbworkshop and @SandytBrehl Unpacking the Power of Picture Books Carrie Charley Brown @carriebrowntx Carrie On…Together and ReFoReMo: Reading for Research Hannah De Camp @hrdreads Hannah de Camp Jodell Sadler @PacingStory2WOW and @KidLitCollege Kidlit College.com | Picture Book Lunch Sondra Eklund @Sonderbooks Sonder Books Maggi Rohde @mama_librarian Mama Librarian Deb Nance@debnanceReaderbuzz Second Round …
Introducing our 2015 Judges
Every year, for the past 10 years, we’ve sent out a call for people who are willing to devote their time and their passion for children’s literature to come up with the best, most kid-friendly books. Every year, you all surprise us with that willingness and passion. It’s pretty amazing. Over the next few hours, we will announce this year’s …
Announcing the 2015 Cybils Organizing Team!
While most of the organizing team is returning, we do have a couple of new (well, returning) organizers: Sarah Stevenson from Finding Wonderland | Co-Blog Editor Terry Doherty from The Reading Tub | Fiction Picture Book Category Chair We are happy to welcome Sarah and Terry back! They join the returning organizers: Anne Boles Levy | Executive Director Sheila Ruth | Publisher Liaison and Young Adult Speculative …
Interview with J. Patrick Lewis and George Ella Lyon
First off, congrats! Voices from the March on Washington is fantastic! Can you tell us how you got the idea for this book? JPL: All credit goes to George Ella. When we first met at the Redlands (CA) conference a couple of years ago, I suggested to her that we might do a book together. She sweetly agreed and suggested the theme of …
Interview with Melissa Stewart and Sarah Brannen
First off, congrats! We were all very excited Feathers won. Can you tell us a bit about how you came up with the idea for this book? MS: Thanks so much! Sarah and I were thrilled to hear that our book had won. While I was doing research for another book, I stumbled across an article in Birder’s World (now …
A Note to Publishers, Authors, and Illustrators
The winners of the 2014 Cybils Awards were announced on Saturday. If you missed the announcement, you can see it here. As Publisher Liaison, I’d like to offer my personal congratulations to the winners. The award winning books are the culmination of two separate rounds of judging over five months, and a selection process that involved a total of 129 hardworking judges. Winning …
The 2014 Cybils Awards
As another Cybils winds to a close, we’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who played a part in it this year, from the round 1 panelist who spent countless hours reading to the round 2 judges who spent time debating and discussing to choose the winners below to the organizers who spent hours making sure that everything ran …
2014 Finalists: Things That are Being Said, Part 2
Wernick & Pratt (@WernickPratt): Hats off to Bryan Collier and @The_Pigeon, whose books were named @cybils Finalists!http://t.co/8slBJ0tY0y Jennifer Morris (@jenmorris80): Steve and Wessley Cybils Finalists: Steve and Wessley’s first book, The Ice Cream Shop is a finalist in the Cybils. Jennifer also wrote a blog post about it! Laura Cecil Agency (@LCecilLitAgency): Congratulations to @Alexmilway whose Pigsticks & Harold has …