After 15 years of binge-reading, re-reading, fan-fictioning, nominating, voting for, and celebrating our favorite books, we at the CYBILS Awards have the privilege to once again invite you to be a part of the process of recognizing the stories which combine both “literary merit and popular appeal.” The CYBILS Awards are passionate about the stories we love equitably reflecting the …
#CybilsAwards Backlist Book List: So You Want To Learn Magic
Charlotte Taylor, Chair for our Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction category, has conjured this week’s Backlist Book List. And dare we say it? It’s magical. There. We said it. If you know a young reader who dreams of spells and wishes for magic skills, this is the book list for you. Meet Eva Evergreen! We’ll let Kristin Harvey, who blogs at …
Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction – Category Description
Inventive, wild, and wonderful–great speculative fiction for kids just keeps on coming! Along with the obvious wizards and aliens, this category includes books with talking animals, time-travel, ghosts, and paranormal abilities, and all the other books that might not have obvious magic or travel to distant planets, but which push past the boundaries of daily life into the realm of …
Meet the Organizers: Charlotte Taylor, Elementary and Middle Grade Speculative Fiction
Charlotte Taylor has been fan of fantasy since she started reading round about the age of two (Lowly Worm is still a favorite hero). When not reading (mostly middle grade speculative fiction, but other things too), she is a professional archaeologist, mother of two boys, president of her local library’s Friends group, and co-renovator with her husband (ethnomusicologist and Irish piper) of an old and …