It is Valentine’s Day! It is CYBILS Day!
The judges for the short list of CYBILS nominations have been hard at work. Decisions have been made and valentines delivered to the books considered best for 2008 by the kidlitosphere blogging world. Ta-da!
The 2009 Cybils Winners
Easy Readers
I Love My New Toywritten by Mo Willems
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Middle Grade
The Graveyard Bookwritten by Neil Gaiman (MsMac’s editorial note: Yay! This book will be featured in an upcoming post about great elementary stories and self censorship)
Young Adult
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
Rapunzel’s Revenge written by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale, illustrated by Nathan Hale
Young Adult
Emiko Superstarwritten by Mariko Tamaki illustrated by Steve Ralston
Middle-Grade Fiction
The London Eye Mysterywritten by Siobhan Dowd
Non-Fiction MG/YA
Non-Fiction Picture Books
Nic Bishop Frogs written and illustrated by Nic Bishop (MsMac’s editorial note: YAY!!)
Poetry
Honeybee written by Naomi Shihab Nye (MsMac’s editorial note: Loved this book)
Young Adult Fiction
Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, The written by E Lockhart
You can find more information about the winnders here.
Happy Reading.
MsMac