Cybils Awards
Cybils Awards |
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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.
Criteria for Award
- Anybody may nominate a children's or young adult book published October 16 of the preceding year - October 15 of the contest year.
- Books must be written in English or they may be bilingual.
- Only one book may be nominated per person, per category.
- Nominations open October 1 and close October 15 of the contest year.
- Books should exemplify award criteria of literary merit and "kid appeal."
- Audiobooks currently are not part of the awards.
Award Recipients
2009 Cybil Award Winners
Category |
Winning Title/Author |
Easy Readers & Short Chapter Books
- Easy Readers
- Short Chapter Books
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Fantasy & Science Fiction
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- Dreamdark: Silksinger (Faeries of Dreamdark) written by Laini Taylor
- Fire written by Kristin Cashore
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Fiction Picture Books |
- All the World written by Liz Garton Scanlon; illustrated by Marla Frazee
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Graphic Novels
- Elementary/Middle Grade
- Young Adult
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Middle-Grade Fiction |
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Middle-Grade/Young Adult Non-Fiction |
- The Frog Scientist written by Pamela S. Turner; illustrated by Andy Comins
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Non-Fiction Picture Books |
- The Day-Glo Brothers written by Chris Barton; illustrated by Tony Persiani
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Poetry |
- Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors written by Joyce Sidman; illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski
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Young Adult Fiction |
- Cracked Up To Be written by Courtney Summers
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2008 Cybil Award Winners
Category |
Winning Title/Author |
Easy Readers |
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Fantasy & Science Fiction
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Fiction Picture Books |
- How to Heal a Broken Wing written and illustrated by Bob Graham
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Graphic Novels
- Elementary/Middle Grade
- Young Adult
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- Rapunzel's Revenge written by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale; illustrated by Nathan Hale
- Emiko Superstar written by Mariko Tamaki; illustrated by Steve Rolston
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Middle-Grade Fiction |
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Middle-Grade/Young Adult Non-Fiction |
- The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir written by Cylin Busby and John Busby
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Non-Fiction Picture Books |
- Nic Bishop Frogs written and illustrated by Nic Bishop
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Poetry |
- Honeybee written by Naomi Shihab Nye
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Young Adult Fiction |
- The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks written by E. Lockhart
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2007 Cybil Award Winners
Category |
Winning Title/Author |
Fantasy & Science Fiction
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Fiction Picture Books |
- The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County written by Janice N. Harrington; illustrated by Shelley Jackson
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Graphic Novels
- Elementary/Middle Grade
- Young Adult
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- 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
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Middle-Grade Fiction |
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Middle-Grade/Young Adult Non-Fiction |
- Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood written by Ibtisam Barakat
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Non-Fiction Picture Books |
- Lightship written and illustrated by Brian Floca
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Poetry |
- This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness written by Joyce Sidman; illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski
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Young Adult Fiction |
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2006 Cybil Award Winners
Category |
Winning Title/Author |
Fantasy & Science Fiction |
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Fiction Picture Books |
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Graphic Novels
- Elementary/Middle Grade
- Young Adult
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Middle-Grade Fiction |
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Middle-Grade/Young Adult Non-Fiction |
- Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott written by Russell Freedman
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Non-Fiction Picture Books |
- An Egg is Quiet written by Dianna Aston; illustrated by Sylvia Long
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Poetry |
- Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow written by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Beth Krommes
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Young Adult Fiction |
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Notes
- ^ http://www.kidlitosphere.org/KidLitosphere_Central/Cybils.html
- ^ http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6536666.html
- ^ http://www.publishersweekly.com/eNewsletter/CA6389665/2788.html#In_Brief
- ^ http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6637741.html
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