The 2009 Cybils Poetry Book Nominations

The deadline for nominating children’s and young adult books for the 2009 Cybils is tomorrow. Nominations will close at 11:59 p.m. on October 15th.

I will be serving as a second round judge in the Poetry Category this year. Following is the list of poetry books that were nominated and are eligible. If you don’t see your favorite poetry book of the past year on the list, by all means get thee over to the Cybils site and nominate it.

Here’s a link to the nomination form: Cybils Nomination Form

Read this Wild Rose Reader post, 2009 Cybils Poetry Panel Announced!, to find out who’ll be serving on the poetry panels with me this year.

Poetry Books Nominated in 2009

1. A Curious Collection of Cats By Betsy Franco
2. A Foot in the Mouth: Poems to Speak, Sing and Shout By Paul Janeczko
3. A Whiff of Pine, a Hint of Skunk: A Forest of Poems By Deborah Ruddell
4. Absolutely Wild By Dennis Webster
5. African Acrostics: A Word in Edgeways By Avis Harley
6. Button Up!: Wrinkled Rhymes By Alice Schertle
7. Change-up: Baseball Poems By Gene Fehler
8. City I Love By Lee Bennett Hopkins
9. Come to the Castle!: A Visit to a Castle in Thirteenth-Century England By Linda Ashman
10. Concrete Poetry (Poetry Basics) By Valerie Bodden
11. Dinothesaurus: Prehistoric Poems and Paintings By Douglas Florian
12. Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems By ed. Georgia Heard
13. Lady of Shalott, The (Visions in Poetry) By Alfred Lord Tennyson
14. Mother Poems By Hope Anita Smith
15. Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors By Joyce Sidman
16. Sky Magic By Lee Bennett Hopkins
17. Spot the Plot: A Riddle Book of Book Riddles By J. Patrick Lewis
18. Stampede!: Poems to Celebrate the Wild Side of School By Laura Purdie Salas
19. Steady Hands: Poems About Work By Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
20. The Bill Martin Jr Big Book of Poetry By Bill Martin Jr.
21. The Cuckoo's Haiku: and Other Birding Poems By Michael J. Rosen
22. The Fastest Game on Two Feet: And Other Poems About How Sports Began By Alice Low
23. The House By J. Patrick Lewis
24. The Monsterologist: A Memoir in Rhyme By Bobbi Katz
25. The Tree That Time Built: A Celebration of Nature, Science, and Imagination By Mary Ann Hoberman & Linda Winston
26. The Underwear Salesman: And Other Jobs for Better or Verse By J. Patrick Lewis
27. The Young Inferno By John Agard
28. Tofu Quilt By Ching Yeung Russell
29. What's the Weather Inside? By Karma Wilson