Cybils Awards

Cybils Awards
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. Co-founded by Kelly Herold and Anne Boles Levy in 2006, 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.

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.

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	Watch Me Throw the Ball! (An Elephant and Piggie Book) written by Mo Willems Bad to the Bone (Down Girl and Sit) written by Lucy Nolan; illustrated by Mike Reed
Fantasy & Science Fiction Middle Grade Young Adult	Dreamdark: Silksinger (Faeries of Dreamdark) written by Laini Taylor Fire written by Kristin Cashore
Fiction Picture Books	All the World written by Liz Garton Scanlon; illustrated by Marla Frazee
Graphic Novels Elementary/Middle Grade Young Adult	The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook written and illustrated by Eleanor Davis Gunnerkrigg Court: Orientation written and illustrated by Tom Siddell
Middle-Grade Fiction	Chains written by Laurie Halse Anderson
Middle-Grade/Young Adult Non-Fiction	The Frog Scientist written by Pamela S. Turner; illustrated by Andy Comins
Non-Fiction Picture Books	The Day-Glo Brothers written by Chris Barton; illustrated by Tony Persiani
Poetry	Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors written by Joyce Sidman; illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski
Young Adult Fiction	Cracked Up To Be written by Courtney Summers

2008 Cybil Award Winners

Category	Winning Title/Author
Easy Readers	I Love My New Toy written by Mo Willems
Fantasy & Science Fiction Middle Grade Young Adult	The Graveyard Book written by Neil Gaiman The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins
Fiction Picture Books	How to Heal a Broken Wing written and illustrated by Bob Graham
Graphic Novels Elementary/Middle Grade Young Adult	Rapunzel's Revenge written by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale; illustrated by Nathan Hale Emiko Superstar written by Mariko Tamaki; illustrated by Steve Rolston
Middle-Grade Fiction	The London Eye Mystery written by Siobhan Dowd
Middle-Grade/Young Adult Non-Fiction	The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir written by Cylin Busby and John Busby
Non-Fiction Picture Books	Nic Bishop Frogs written and illustrated by Nic Bishop
Poetry	Honeybee written by Naomi Shihab Nye
Young Adult Fiction	The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks written by E. Lockhart

2007 Cybil Award Winners

Category	Winning Title/Author
Fantasy & Science Fiction Middle Grade Young Adult	The True Meaning of Smekday written by Adam Rex Book of a Thousand Days written by Shannon Hale
Fiction Picture Books	The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County written by Janice N. Harrington; illustrated by Shelley Jackson
Graphic Novels Elementary/Middle Grade Young Adult	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
Middle-Grade Fiction	A Crooked Kind of Perfect written by Linda Urban
Middle-Grade/Young Adult Non-Fiction	Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood written by Ibtisam Barakat
Non-Fiction Picture Books	Lightship written and illustrated by Brian Floca
Poetry	This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness written by Joyce Sidman; illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski
Young Adult Fiction	Boy Toy written by Barry Lyga

2006 Cybil Award Winners

Category	Winning Title/Author
Fantasy & Science Fiction	Ptolemy's Gate (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 3) written by Jonathan Stroud
Fiction Picture Books	Scaredy Squirrel written and illustrated by Melanie Watt
Graphic Novels Elementary/Middle Grade Young Adult	Amelia Rules! Volume 3: Superheroes written and illustrated by Jim Gownley American Born Chinese written and illustrated by Gene Yang
Middle-Grade Fiction	A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama written by Laura Amy Schlitz
Middle-Grade/Young Adult Non-Fiction	Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott written by Russell Freedman
Non-Fiction Picture Books	An Egg is Quiet written by Dianna Aston; illustrated by Sylvia Long
Poetry	Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow written by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Beth Krommes
Young Adult Fiction	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist written by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

External links

• Official Cybils Home Page
• Iowa Independent: Grassroots Kid-Lit Award Faces New Challenges
• Bloggers’ Kid Lit Awards Unveil Top Picks