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Cybils Winners Announced Today!

Amidst all the hubbub for all the events happening today, the Cybils award winners were announced this morning!

cybils-2013-logoIf you are interested in children’s books, the Cybils are a fabulous way to find carefully-vetted titles separated by genre and age groups:

Looking for STEM books? Check out the STEM finalists from the nonfiction category at Growing with Science.

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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!