About The Cybils Awards

Our purpose is two-fold:

• Reward the children’s and young adult authors (and illustrators, let’s not forget them) whose books combine the highest literary merit and "kid appeal." What’s that mean? If some la-di-dah awards can be compared to brussel sprouts, and other, more populist ones to gummy bears, we’re thinking more like organic chicken nuggets. We’re yummy and nutritious.
• Foster a sense of community among bloggers who write about children’s and YA literature, highlight our best reviewers (and shamelessly promote their blogs) and provide a forum for the similarly obsessed.

We wouldn’t be a real awards if we didn’t have a whole bunch of complicated rules in tortured lawyerese. So maybe we’re not a real awards, because there aren’t any lawyers and only two rules:

1. You (and you can be anybody, even you) may nominate any book published in the contest year in English;
2. Only one book per category. We have ways of checking this, so play nice. Nominations open Oct. 1 and close Oct. 15.

After that, here’s what happens:

• We place all the authors names into a hat and pass our magic wand over it. After the rabbit pops out, we eat him and announce the winner, whom we have selected at random;
• Not really! Just testing you. We have panelists in each category who eat the rabbit. No, er, they read the books. They have until January 1 for that, which we hope and pray will be enough time. On Jan. 1 we’ll post the finalists;
• From Jan. 1 to mid-February, a second group of judges will read all the finalists and pick the winners, which we’ll announce on Valentine’s Day.

See? Easy. And no actual rabbits will be harmed in the process.

To contact us:
cybils09 (at) gmail (dot) com

If you don't get a prompt reply (during the off-season we generally don't check our inbox as often), contact Anne Levy at anne (at) bookbuds (dot) net.

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I would like to nominate Donny Bailey Seagraves's book by Delacorte Press. The title is gonefromthesewoods. The book presents a realistic picture of a boy, struggling to overcome the death of a beloved uncle.

[Sheila Ruth]

Everyone, please don't put your nominations here. Use our new handy-dandy nomination form here: http://www.wandsandworlds.com/cybils/nomination_form.html

[Jen]

I was wondering if a book that was first published in England in 2007, but was just published in the US this year is eligible.

Thanks!

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Yes, it is eligible as long as it wasn't nominated & considered for the Cybils award in the year it was published in England.

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Great! Thanks for the quick answer!

[Bonnie J. Doerr]

Would you ever consider adding the category of "tween" to your award? YA is creeping up into college age and MG can include ages eight or nine. Those readers not ready for YA content, but ready for content different from a nine or ten year old would benefit from a "tween" tag.

My forthcoming book is alternately categorized as MG and YA. It gets confusing. I know I am. I see it as a book for readers from 10-14. Publishers are beginning to use the tween category more and more.

Something to consider...
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[Jo Ann Orr]

I would like to nominate A Voice of Her Own by Barbara Dana. Being an Emily Dickinson fan, I found her account of ED's early life a fascinating page turner. It's a great introduction for young people to become better acquainted with Emily Dickinson and her times.

Voice of Her Own will lead readers to want to read the poetry and letters of Emily Dickinson. What a wonderful gift for a young reader or for the classroom.

[Carolyn Hamilton]

A Voice of Her Own by Barbara Dana is deserving of a Cybils award! Her account of Emily Dickinson's early life brings this most important American poet to life. The pages of her book are alive with the events, thoughts, and feelings of a young girl who astonishingly becomes one of the world's greatest poets. Most young girls reading this book can easily relate to the young Emily and might even be inspired to imagine themselves poets.

[Sheila Ruth]

Hi Jo Ann,

Can you please nominate this book using our official nomination form:

http://www.wandsandworlds.com/cybils/nomination_form.html

Thanks!

[Sheila Ruth]

Actually, I see that "A Voice of Her Own" has already been nominated in the Young Adult Fiction category. You can see it here:

http://dadtalk.typepad.com/cybils/2009-nominations-young-adult-fiction.html

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