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In Good Company: #Cybils and the #Kidlit Community

October 2, 2013 by Jennifer

Cybils Logo Draft 3

The Cybils are underway! Nominations are open now for books for children (and young adults) published between October 16, 2012 and October 15, 2013. I encourage you to nominate a book that you or your child loved. The “biggies” are always out there, but the glory about this is that every book is given a fair shake.

Dawn and I are both pleased to be serving in Round I this year. Our busy schedules caused both of us to request round 2 last year, and we both missed the big challenge of narrowing over 100 nominees to a shortlist of finalists. So for the next 2 1/2 months, she and I will be spending a lot of time at our libraries and on their websites, creating holds, picking up holds, reading books, returning books, and hopefully writing up some reviews to share with y’all what we have enjoyed!

See below for the wonderful kidlit lovers with whom we will be working.

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kidlit_logoThe kidlit blogging community is amazing. When I first entered the blogosphere back in 2006, I was drawn to others like me who loved books. Early on, I found Jen Robinson online, and through her, I entered the world of kidlit fanatics. I was privileged to serve in the very first Cybils awards, and have served several years since then.

Book bloggers are awesome in general, and kidlit bloggers have been nothing but warm and welcoming. I’ve been eyeing the fun at the Kidlit Con the last few years. The opportunity to learn to be a better blogger and reviewer, and hang out with warm wonderful people who love books, and in particular encouraging kids to read– it’s compelling. When I found out it was only a few hours away from me this year — in Austin, Texas November 8 and 9, I knew that this was my year to give it a try.

So, I’m officially registered for KidLit Con 2013! I’m thrilled to meet people I’ve connected with online via twitter, blogs, and the Cybils, and I know I’ll meet some new lovely folks as well.

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Fiction Picture Books

Round 1

Laura Given, LibLaura
http://liblaura5.blogspot.com
@liblaura5

Dawn Mooney, Five Minutes for Books
http://books.5minutesformom.com
@mteblogmama

Carol Munro, Just Write Words
http://carolmunrojustwritewords.wordpress.com

Jodell Sadler, Picture Book Lunch
http://www.scbwi-illinois.org
@picturebklunch

Caryn Schafer, Three Books a Night
http://www.threebooksanight.com
@smellingoranges

Melissa Wiley, Here in the Bonny Glen
http://melissawiley.com/blog/
@melissawiley

Paula Wiley, Pink Me
http://pinkme.typepad.com
@pwbalto

Round 2

Jane Breen, Piper Loves the Library
http://piperlovesthelibrary.blogspot.com
@piper212

Maria Burel, Once Upon a Story
http://www.novalibrarymom.com
@novalibrarymom

Myra Garces-Bacsal, Gathering Books
http://gatheringbooks.wordpress.com
@GatheringBooks

Tess Goldwasser, Kid’s Book Blog
http://latibookblog.blogspot.com
@bookdrophipster

Kerry Millar, Shelf Elf
http://shelfelf.wordpress.com
@Shelf_Elf 

Middle Grade Fiction

First Round

Mark Buxton
http://buxtolicious.blogspot.com

Jennifer Donovan
http://books.5minutesformom.com
@5M4B

Heidi Grange
http://geolibrarian.blogspot.com
@GeoLibrarian

Deb Marshall
http://mylibrarynotebook.blogspot.ca/
@debamarshall

Jennifer Rumberger
www.jenniferrumberger.com
@j_rumberger

Julie Williams
http://readingbythepond.blogspot.com/
@JulieWilliams89

Karen Yingling
http://msyinglingreads.blogspot.com
@msyingling

Second Round

Alex Baugh
http://randomlyreading.blogspot.com
@randomlyreading

Kathy Burnette
http://www.thebrainlair.com
@thebrainlair

Melissa Gaynor
http://sweetonbooks.com
@sweetonbooks

Michael Gettel-Gilmartin
http://middlegrademafioso.blogspot.com
@MGMafioso

Kyle Kimmal
http://theboyreader.blogspot.com
@theboyreader

Filed Under: Children's Books, Community, Cybils, Dawn, Jennifer

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Comments

  1. Dawn says

    October 2, 2013 at 10:33 am

    So excited to watch the nominated titles piling up! And yes, you’ve got it right about the library holds. I think my local librarians will be so happy that this year, they’ve finally gone to self-service on picking up and checking out holds. No more showing up at the desk and mumbling, “I need to pick up some holds. There are about 85 of them.” 🙂

    • Jennifer says

      October 2, 2013 at 1:08 pm

      Yeah, my organizer said that she gives the workers at the desk candy 🙂 Mine here is self-serve as well. They put them out alphabetically, and I just grab them.

  2. Patricia says

    October 2, 2013 at 10:57 pm

    Fascinating! I’m looking forward to your reviews of these books.

  3. Stephanie says

    October 10, 2013 at 1:41 pm

    What a cool award program! There are so many great kid books out there! Can’t wait until my little guy is big enough to appreciate them 🙂

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