The 2010 Cybils Awards to Be Announced Soon!

The 2010 Cybils Award winners will be announced on Valentine’s Day. Be sure to check out the Cybils Web-site on Monday!

A winning book will named in each of the following nine categories:
Easy Readers & Early Chapter Books
Fantasy & Science Fiction (Middle Grade)
Fantasy & Science Fiction (Young Adult)
Fiction Picture Books
Graphic Novels (Middle Grade)
Graphic Novels (Young Adult)
Middle Grade Novels
Nonfiction Books (Middle Grade & Young Adult)
Nonfiction Picture Books

Poetry

Young Adult Novels

I served as a 2010 Cybils Round I Poetry Panelist. I think 2010 was a banner year for children's poetry. Our group nominated seven titles. There were other fine poetry books that didn't make our list of finalists.

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The 2010 Cybils Poetry Finalists

Borrowed Names:

Poems about

Laura Ingalls Wilder,

Madam C. J. Walker, Marie Curie,

and Their Daughters

Written by Jeannine Atkins

Henry Holt

Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night

Written by Joyce Sidman

Illustrated by Rick Allen

Houghton Mifflin

Mirror, Mirror:

A Book of Reversible Verse

Written by Marilyn Singer

Illustrated Josee Masse

Dutton

Scarum Fair

Written by Jessica Swaim

Illustrated by Carol Ashley

Wordsong

Ubiquitous:

Celebrating Nature's Survivors

Written by Joyce Sidman

Illustrated by Beckie Prange

Houghton Mifflin

Sharing the Seasons:

A Book of Poems

Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins

Illustrated by David Diaz

McElderry

Switching on the Moon:

A Very First Book of Bedtime Poems

Collected by Jane Yolen & Andrew Fusek Peters

Illustrated by G. Brian Karas

Candlewick

2010 Cybils Poetry Panel

Panel Organizer: Kelly Fineman, Writing and Ruminating

Panelists (Round I Judges):
Bruce Black, Wordswimmer
Elaine Magliaro, Wild Rose Reader
Gina Ruiz, AmoXcalli, The Graphic Landscape
Laura Purdie Salas, Writing the World for Kids
Sylvia Vardell, Poetry for Children

Judges (Round II):
Kelly Fineman (see category organizer)
Sara Lewis Holmes, Read Write Believe
Greg Pincus, GottaBook
Jama Rattigan, Alphabet Soup
Liz Scanlon, Liz in Ink

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Let me say that it was a pleasure to work with the other Round I Panelists. They all have a true appreciation for children's poetry. I have great faith in our Round II Judges. They've had a difficult task--choosing one winner from all those wonderful poetry books. I can't wait to find out which title they select as the 2010 Cybils Poetry Award Winner!

Congratulations to the authors, illustrators, anthologists, and publishers of all the 2010 Cybils Poetry Finalists!!!