Category: Cybil Awards

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Searching for Children’s Books? Try the 2014 Cybils Nominations

October is always a great month for finding quality children’s and young adult books because that is when the Cybils nomination lists are released. Cybils-Logo-2014-Round-Sm1

The Cybils website has been revamped a bit, so here are direct links to some of the lists at the Cybils website and a few books I have chosen to highlight in an Amazon widget. Note: If you click on the books in the widget it will take you to Amazon. Clicking only the arrows allows you to view the books without leaving this blog.

Fiction Picture Books

 

Easy Readers/Early Chapter Books

Poetry

I hadn’t seen some of these poetry books. They look really good.


Elementary/Middle Grade Nonfiction

I will be reviewing a number of the elementary and middle grade nonfiction books (the ones that I haven’t previously reviewed) over the next few weeks.

Young Adult Nonfiction

By the way, Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines by Paul Fleischman has been nominated for the AAAS/Subaru SB&F awards in the middle grade category this year and it is on the young adult list here.

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2013 Cybils Finalists Revealed

Did you see that the 2013 Cybils finalists have been announced? I’ll wait while you hop over and check out all the categories. There are a lot of wonderful children’s books listed.

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As a Round 2 Judge for Elementary and Middle Grade Nonfiction, I was thrilled to see the finalists in that category were (in no particular order):

Locomotive by Brian Floca.

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How Big Were Dinosaurs? by Lita Judge

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Barbed Wire Baseball by Marissa Moss and illustrated by Yuko Shimizu

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Anubis Speaks!: A Guide to the Afterlife by the Egyptian God of the Dead (Secrets of the Ancient Gods) by Vicky Schechter and illustrated by Antoine Revoy

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Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard by Annette LeBlanc Cate

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The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdös by Deborah Heiligman and illustrated by LeUyen Pham

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Volcano Rising by Elizabeth Rusch

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What a wonderful group of books!

In case you are new to Cybils, the Round 2 judges will now discuss these books behind the scenes and a winner will be announced in mid-February. The excitement mounts!

 

 

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Cybils 2013: The Nonfiction Judges

Excitement is in the air. Why? In case you hadn’t heard, the names of Cybils judges for 2013 were released this week. cybils-2013-logo

If you check the list of Nonfiction Elementary/Middle Grade Judges, yes, there I am in the Round 2 judges list. Yay!

My fellow Round 2 Judges:

Let’s not forget our wonderful Nonfiction Elementary/Middle Grade organizer, Jennifer Wharton of Jean Little Library.

Congratulations to all the judges, and looking forward to reading all the great books nominated this year!

Now it is time to get ready for nominations, which open October 1, 2013.

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Cybils 2013: Looking for Volunteer Judges

Do you blog about children’s books on a regular basis? The Cybils are back and the call for judges is going on until August 31, 2013. cybils-2013-logo

What are Cybils? The acronym stands for children’s and young adult bloggers literary awards. Bloggers who specialize in children’s and young adult books have developed the Cybils awards to highlight some of the best books published in the previous year.

Volunteer judges are needed for several different genre of children’s books. There are two rounds of judging, so be sure to read the judging details to decide which panels you would like to apply for. There has been a change in the nonfiction category, with picture books having been combined with middle-grade and young adult having its own category.

Being a Cybils judge is a wonderful opportunity to meet others interested in children’s books and to read some of the top books in the industry. Hope to see you there.