Cybils Awards

Cybils Awards
Awarded for Literary merit and kid appeal in children's and young adult literature
Presented by Bloggers with expertise in children's literature
First awarded 2006
Official website http://www.cybils.com

The Cybils Awards, or Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards, are a series of book awards given by children's and young adult book bloggers[1]. Co-founded by Kelly Herold and Anne Boles Levy in 2006[2], the awards were created to address an apparent gap between children's book awards perceived as too elitist and other awards that did not seem selective enough.[3]

Books are nominated by the public in nine genres of children's and young adult literature: Easy Readers & Short Chapter Books, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fiction Picture Books, Graphic Novels, Middle Grade Novels, Non-Fiction Middle Grade/Young Adult Books, Non-Fiction Picture Books, Poetry, and Young Adult Novels. Nominees go through two rounds of panel-based judging before a winner is announced in each category. Finalists and winners are selected on the basis of literary merit and kid appeal.[4]

Panelists are volunteers and must be active bloggers with extensive experience in children's or young adult literature, either as readers and enthusiasts or as authors, librarians, booksellers, teachers, or others with verifiable investment in the world of children's literature.

Contents

Criteria for Award

Award Recipients

2009 Cybil Award Winners

Category Winning Title/Author
Easy Readers & Short Chapter Books
  • Easy Readers
  • Short Chapter Books
Fantasy & Science Fiction
  • Middle Grade
  • Young Adult
  • Dreamdark: Silksinger (Faeries of Dreamdark) written by Laini Taylor
  • Fire written by Kristin Cashore
Fiction Picture Books
  • All the World written by Liz Garton Scanlon; illustrated by Marla Frazee
Graphic Novels
  • Elementary/Middle Grade
  • Young Adult
Middle-Grade Fiction
Middle-Grade/Young Adult Non-Fiction
  • The Frog Scientist written by Pamela S. Turner; illustrated by Andy Comins
Non-Fiction Picture Books
  • The Day-Glo Brothers written by Chris Barton; illustrated by Tony Persiani
Poetry
  • Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors written by Joyce Sidman; illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski
Young Adult Fiction
  • Cracked Up To Be written by Courtney Summers

2008 Cybil Award Winners

Category Winning Title/Author
Easy Readers
Fantasy & Science Fiction
  • Middle Grade
  • Young Adult
Fiction Picture Books
  • How to Heal a Broken Wing written and illustrated by Bob Graham
Graphic Novels
  • Elementary/Middle Grade
  • Young Adult
  • Rapunzel's Revenge written by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale; illustrated by Nathan Hale
  • Emiko Superstar written by Mariko Tamaki; illustrated by Steve Rolston
Middle-Grade Fiction
Middle-Grade/Young Adult Non-Fiction
  • The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir written by Cylin Busby and John Busby
Non-Fiction Picture Books
  • Nic Bishop Frogs written and illustrated by Nic Bishop
Poetry
  • Honeybee written by Naomi Shihab Nye
Young Adult Fiction
  • The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks written by E. Lockhart

2007 Cybil Award Winners

Category Winning Title/Author
Fantasy & Science Fiction
  • Middle Grade
  • Young Adult
Fiction Picture Books
  • The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County written by Janice N. Harrington; illustrated by Shelley Jackson
Graphic Novels
  • Elementary/Middle Grade
  • Young Adult
  • Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel written by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin; illustrated by Giovanni Rigano and Paolo Lamanna
  • The Professor's Daughter written by Joann Sfar; illustrated by Emmanuel Guibert
Middle-Grade Fiction
Middle-Grade/Young Adult Non-Fiction
  • Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood written by Ibtisam Barakat
Non-Fiction Picture Books
  • Lightship written and illustrated by Brian Floca
Poetry
  • This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness written by Joyce Sidman; illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski
Young Adult Fiction

2006 Cybil Award Winners

Category Winning Title/Author
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Fiction Picture Books
Graphic Novels
  • Elementary/Middle Grade
  • Young Adult
Middle-Grade Fiction
Middle-Grade/Young Adult Non-Fiction
  • Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott written by Russell Freedman
Non-Fiction Picture Books
  • An Egg is Quiet written by Dianna Aston; illustrated by Sylvia Long
Poetry
  • Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow written by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Beth Krommes
Young Adult Fiction

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.kidlitosphere.org/KidLitosphere_Central/Cybils.html
  2. ^ http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6536666.html
  3. ^ http://www.publishersweekly.com/eNewsletter/CA6389665/2788.html#In_Brief
  4. ^ http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6637741.html

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