Coming Soon: Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards, 2008

Start thinking of your favorite kids' books of the year! On October 1st, nominations open for the 2008 Cybil Awards. A new category this year has been set aside for Easy Readers, and I am pleased to be part of that panel. Panelists winnow down a long list to a Top 5 (or 6 or 7). Here is the Easy Reader crew:

Panel Organizer: Anastasia Suen (Book of the Week, Children's Book Biz News, Picture Book of the Day, Kid Lit Kit)

Panelists:

Andi/Cloudscome, A Wrung Sponge
Sonja Cole, Book Wink
Terry Doherty, The Reading Tub
Kara Dean, Not Just for Kids 
yours truly

Judges:

Jen Robinson (Jen Robinson's Book Page)
Terry Pierce (Terry Pierce)
Heather Acerro (ACPL Kids)
Els Kushner (Librarian Mom/Scholastic)
Anastasia Suen (see panel organizer)

Judges and panelists in a number of other categories will be announced this week; check the Cybils blog for details.

Comments

[cloudscome]

This is going to be so much fun! I can't wait to get started. I'm making my list of what to nominate in each category...

[Susan]

I know! It will be great. I'm very excited, too, Cloudscome.

[bookdude]

You should check out Bayard and their series of StoryBoxBooks, AdventureBoxBooks, and DiscoveryBoxBooks.
There's lots going on too:
This Month Storybox has guest illustrator Helen Oxenbury featured.

There's a Readathon happening in UK and Ireland - http://discoveryboxbooks.com/readathon.php
There's a Ghost Drawing competition in AdventureBoxBooks assiciated with the Polka Theatre ( http://www.adventureboxbooks.com/competition.php )

[Susan (editor)]

Thanks for the PR dump news.