2010 Cybils Award Winners Announced!

The 2010 Cybils Award Winners were announced this morning! Click here to find out who the winners are.

The 2010 Cybils Awards to Be Announced Soon!

The 2010 Cybils Award winners will be announced on Valentine’s Day. Be sure to check out the Cybils Web-site on Monday!

A winning book will named in each of the following nine categories:
Easy Readers & Early Chapter Books
Fantasy & Science Fiction (Middle Grade)
Fantasy & Science Fiction (Young Adult)
Fiction Picture Books
Graphic Novels (Middle Grade)
Graphic Novels (Young Adult)
Middle Grade Novels
Nonfiction Books (Middle Grade & Young Adult)
Nonfiction Picture Books

Poetry

Young Adult Novels

I served as a 2010 Cybils Round I Poetry Panelist. I think 2010 was a banner year for children's poetry. Our group nominated seven titles. There were other fine poetry books that didn't make our list of finalists.

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The 2010 Cybils Poetry Finalists

Borrowed Names:

Poems about

Laura Ingalls Wilder,

Madam C. J. Walker, Marie Curie,

and Their Daughters

Written by Jeannine Atkins

Henry Holt

Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night

Written by Joyce Sidman

Illustrated by Rick Allen

Houghton Mifflin

Mirror, Mirror:

A Book of Reversible Verse

Written by Marilyn Singer

Illustrated Josee Masse

Dutton

Scarum Fair

Written by Jessica Swaim

Illustrated by Carol Ashley

Wordsong

Ubiquitous:

Celebrating Nature's Survivors

Written by Joyce Sidman

Illustrated by Beckie Prange

Houghton Mifflin

Sharing the Seasons:

A Book of Poems

Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins

Illustrated by David Diaz

McElderry

Switching on the Moon:

A Very First Book of Bedtime Poems

Collected by Jane Yolen & Andrew Fusek Peters

Illustrated by G. Brian Karas

Candlewick

2010 Cybils Poetry Panel

Panel Organizer: Kelly Fineman, Writing and Ruminating

Panelists (Round I Judges):
Bruce Black, Wordswimmer
Elaine Magliaro, Wild Rose Reader
Gina Ruiz, AmoXcalli, The Graphic Landscape
Laura Purdie Salas, Writing the World for Kids
Sylvia Vardell, Poetry for Children

Judges (Round II):
Kelly Fineman (see category organizer)
Sara Lewis Holmes, Read Write Believe
Greg Pincus, GottaBook
Jama Rattigan, Alphabet Soup
Liz Scanlon, Liz in Ink

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Let me say that it was a pleasure to work with the other Round I Panelists. They all have a true appreciation for children's poetry. I have great faith in our Round II Judges. They've had a difficult task--choosing one winner from all those wonderful poetry books. I can't wait to find out which title they select as the 2010 Cybils Poetry Award Winner!

Congratulations to the authors, illustrators, anthologists, and publishers of all the 2010 Cybils Poetry Finalists!!!

The Cybils 2009 & Wikipedia

It’s coming up on that time of year again. I’m not talking about the end of summer/beginning of fall--I’m talking about the Cybils.

FYI: Nominations for the new 2009 season will open on October 1st. Here’s some news from The Cybils website: The word is spreading, and thanks to everyone who's made the Cybils such a well-organized and respected endeavor over the past three years, we're now officially a fixture on Wikipedia! That's right, the Cybils has a Wikipedia entry , complete with lists of award winners, a little history, and everything else the world needs to know about us.

Read the rest of The Cybils are Wiki-Fabulous here.

The Cybils Award Winners

The Cybils Award Winners have been announced!

Check out the winning books here.

The 2008 Cybils Finalists

I was away in New Hampshire for a few days welcoming in the New Year with close friends. We had no Internet access in our unit—so I took a blogging vacation. While I was away, the 2008 Cybils Book Finalists were announced.

The 2008 Cybils Finalists

Click on each genre for its short list:

• Easy Readers
• Fantasy & Science Fiction
• Fiction Picture Books
• Graphic Novels
• Middle Grade Fiction
• Non-Fiction MG/YA
• Non-Fiction Picture Books
• Poetry
• Young Adult Fiction

The Cybils 2008: Let the Nominations Begin!!!

Nominations are now open for the Third Annual Cybils Awards.

Some important dates to keep in mind:

• Oct. 1-15: Nominations are open.
• Jan. 1: Finalists announced.
• Feb. 14: Winners announced.

Read more about the Cybils nomination process here and here.

The Cybils 2008 & The British Poet Laureate

The Cybils 2008: The Children’s & Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards
The time has nearly arrived when people will be able to nominate their favorite children’s books for the 2008 Cybils Awards. We have a new category this year: Easy Readers. Read about it here.

I will be serving, once again, on the Cybils poetry-nominating panel. We have a great group of kidlit bloggers serving as panelists and judges.

The 2008 Cybils Poetry Panel

Organizer: Kelly Fineman Writing and Ruminating

Panelists (Round I judges)
Kelly Fineman Writing and Ruminating
Elaine Magliaro Wild Rose Reader
Bruce Black Wordswimmer
Laura Purdie Salas
Julie Danielson Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast

Judges (Round II)
John Mutford The Book Mine Set
Gregory K. Pincus Gottabook
Sylvia Vardell Poetry for Children
Jama Rattigan Alphabet Soup
Liz Garton Scanlon Liz in Ink


And on the Poetry Front across the Atlantic Ocean

Here’s a little tidbit about Andrew Motion, the British poet laureate, who is planning to resign next year: Britain's Poet Laureate Has Writer's Block.