Cybils Awards Now Open for Nominations
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Nominations for the third annual Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards (the Cybils) will be open Wednesday, October 1st through Wednesday, October 15th. The goal of the Cybils team (some 100 bloggers) is to highlight books that are high in both literary quality and kid appeal.
This year, awards will be given in nine categories (Easy Readers, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fiction Picture Books, Graphic Novels, Middle Grade Novels, Non-Fiction Middle Grade/Young Adult Books, Non-Fiction Picture Books, Poetry, Young Adult Novels). Anyone can nominate books in these categories (one nomination per person per category). Nominated titles must be published between January 1st and October 15th of this year, and the books must be in English (or bilingual, where one of the languages is English). To nominate titles, visit the Cybils blog (http://www.cybils.com/) between October 1st and 15th.
Between October 16th and January 1st, Cybils panelists (children’s and young adult bloggers) will winnow the nominations down to a 5-7 book short list for each category. A second set of panelists will then select the winning titles for the different categories. The winners will be announced on February 14th, 2009.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Thanks so much for posting this announcement, Jon! Thanks for helping us to spread the word about the Cybils.
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Really liked this, thanks!
~Caroline
October 9th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Hi Jon, It was great meeting you at the Kidlit Conference! Thanks for posting the Cybils announcement, and also thanks for the invite to the Ning group. I have to decide whether to join as an individual, since I have a Ning login, or whether Tanita and I want to join “as a blog.”