Coming Soon: Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards, 2008
September 16, 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.
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...
Posted by: cloudscome | September 21, 2008 at 07:03 AM
I know! It will be great. I'm very excited, too, Cloudscome.
Posted by: Susan | September 21, 2008 at 10:00 AM
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 )
Posted by: bookdude | September 23, 2008 at 05:55 AM
Thanks for the PR
dumpnews.Posted by: Susan (editor) | September 23, 2008 at 12:10 PM