You've no doubt already read about the winners of this year's ALA literary awards--the Caldecott, the Newbery, the Printz. What you may not know is that many of the titles honored by the American Library Association are also Cybils nominees or finalists, prompting an extra W00T or two around here. Among the Cybils books honored are the following:
- Mare's War, a YA nominated title by SFF panelist Tanita S. Davis, is a Coretta Scott King Honor Book
- The Day-Glo Brothers, a NFPB finalist by former Cybils organizer Chris Barton, is a Sibert Honor Book
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin is a Cybils SFF MG finalist and a Newbery Honor Book
- Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Philip Hoose is a NFMG/YA finalist and a Newbery Honor Book
- Caldecott winner The Lion & The Mouse by Jerry Pinkney is a Cybils FPB finalist
- Anything but Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin is a Cybils MG Fiction finalist and the middle-grade Schneider Family Book Award winner
- Caldecott Honor book All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon is a Cybils FPB finalist
- Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, written and illustrated by Brian Floca, is a Sibert Honor Book and an NFPB finalist
On behalf of all the Cybils organizers, congratulations to all of the honored authors and illustrators and their books!
--Sarah Stevenson, blog editor
RED SINGS FROM TREETOPS, a Cybils poetry finalist, also received a Caldecott Honor.
Posted by: Elaine Magliaro | January 19, 2010 at 08:38 PM
Excellent! Thanks, Elaine, for pointing it out.
Posted by: aquafortis | January 19, 2010 at 11:19 PM