The 2009 Cybils Book Award Winners and Finalists!
Have you been following The Cybils awards? I have! I’ve been looking forward to Valentines day not for the love and romance but because the Cybils are being announced! The Cybils are a series of book awards given by children’s and young adult book bloggers. The Cybils have only two criteria: literary merit and kid appeal. For the third year, The Cybils announces it’s winners! And kudos to all the bloggers involved. The sheer amount of work put in by the panelists and judges is amazing!
The winners and finalists as they were announced this morning on the Cybils blog (links will take you to book reviews found on the Maw Books Blog):
Fantasy and Science Fiction
Teen/Young Adult
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Airman by Eoin Colfer
- The Explosionist by Jenny Davidson
- Graceling by Kristin Cashore
- Wake by Lisa McMann
Elementary/Middle Grade
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- Cabinet of Wonders by Marie Rutkoski
- Lamplighter by D. M. Cornish
- The Magic Thief by Sarah Prineas
- Savvy by Ingrid Law
Graphic Novels
Teen/Young Adult
- Emiko Superstar written by Mariko Tamaki; illustrated by Steve Ralston
- Kin: Good Neighbors, Book 1 written by Holly Black; illustrated by Ted Naifeh
- Life Sucks written by Jessica Abel and Gabe Soria, illustrated by Warren Pleese
- Skim written and illustrated by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
- Three Shadows written and illustrated by Cyril Pedrosa
Elementary/Middle Grade
- Rapunzel’s Revenge written by Shannon and Dean Hale; illustrated by Nathan Hale
- Chiggers written and illustrated by Hope Larson
- Into the Volcano written and illustrated by Don Wood
- Jellaby, vol. 1 written and illustrated by Kean Soo
- The Savage written by David Almond; illustrated by Dave McKean
- There’s a Wolf at the Door: Five Classic Tales written by Zoe Alley; illustrated by R.W. Alley
Non-fiction
Middle Grade and YA
- The Year We Disappeared: A Father- Daughter Memoir written by Cylin Busby and John Busby
- 11 Planets: A New View of the Solar System written by David Aguilar
- Ain’t Nothing but a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry written by Scott Reynolds Nelson
- Body Drama: Real Girls, Real Bodies, Real Issues, Real Answers written by Nancy Amanda Redd
- King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn’t Tell You About the American Revolution written by Steve Sheinkin
- Lincoln Through the Lens written by Martin Sandler
- Swords: An Artist’s Devotion written and illustrated by Ben Boos
- We Are the Ship: The Story of the Negro League Baseball written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Picture Books
- Nic Bishop Frogs written and illustrated by Nic Bishop
- A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams written by Jen Bryant; illustrated by Melissa Sweet
- Astronaut Handbook written and illustrated by Meghan McCarthy
- Duel! Burr and Hamilton’s Deadly War of Words written by Dennis Brindell Fradin; illustrated by Larry Day
- Fabulous Fishes written and illustrated by Susan Stockdale
- Wanda Gag: The Girl Who Lived to Draw written and illustrated by Deborah Kogan Ray
- Wangari’s Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa written and illustrated by Jeanette Winter
Fiction
Young Adult Fiction
- The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
- Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway
- I Know It’s Over by C. K. Kelly Martin
- Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
- Sweethearts by Sara Zarr
- Ten Cents a Dance by Christine Fletcher
- Thaw by Monica Roe
Middle Grade
- The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
- Alvin Ho by Lenore Look
- Diamond Willow by Helen Frost
- Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass
- Shooting the Moon by Frances O’Roark Dowell
Easy Readers
- I Love My New Toy by Mo Willems
- Houndsley and Catina and the Quiet Time by James Howe
- I Will Surprise My Friend! by Mo Willems
- Maybelle Goes to Tea by Katie Speck
- Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig by Kate Dicamillo
Picture Books
- How to Heal a Broken Wing written and illustrated by Bob Graham
- Abe Lincoln Crosses A Creek: A Tall Thin Tale (Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Friend) written by Deborah Hopkinson; illustrated by John Hendrix
- The Big Bad Bunny written by Franny Billingsley; illustrated by G. Brian Karas
- Chester’s Back written and illustrated by Melanie Watts
- Katie Loves the Kitttens written and illustrated by John Himmelman
- The Sea Serpent and Me written by Dashka Slater; illustrated by Catia Chien
- A Visitor for Bear written by Bonny Becker; illustrated by Kady Denton [Watch for a Maw Books interview with Bonny Becky later this month!]
- Wabi Sabi written by Mark Reibstein; illustrated by Ed Young
Poetry
- Honeybee by Naomi Shihab Nye
- America at War illustrated by Stephen Alcorn; edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins
- Imaginary Menagerie: A Book of Curious Creatures written by Julie Larios; illustrated by Julie Paschkis
- More than Friends: Poems from Him and Her written by Sara Holbrook and Allan Wolf
- On the Farm written by David Elliott and Holly Meade
Watch for a whole slew of Cybils book reviews this next month! If I was more on top of it, I would have had them beforehand. But this month is crazy! My Children’s Literature Book Club is meeting this month to discuss the books nominated in the picture book s and graphic novels! That’s a lot of books. I’ve already read most of them. Some I’ll review, others I won’t.
I have The Hunger Games literally on my bookshelf, right next to me. I was planning on reading it this week. The same goes for Emiko Superstar. I’ve reviewed The Graveyard Book, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks, and Rapunzel’s Revenge. I seriously have a draft of How to Heal a Broken Wing which isn’t ready to publish. I was going to save it for March. I was also saving Nic Bishops Frogs for next month too, but that draft is already finished and waiting. So I’ll go ahead and publish it right now.
Which books have you read? Any favorites?
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I’ve only read about five of them. It looks like they picked a great batch.
on February 14th, 2009 at 11:58 amYeah Hunger Games!!! My favorite book so far this year.
on February 14th, 2009 at 4:02 pmoooh….Looks like I have more books to add to the TBR pile. Some I’ve never heard of, but I looked them up and they look really good. Plus, I trust bloggers opinions more than the ALA. I sometimes don’t know what they are thinking!
on February 15th, 2009 at 9:18 amI think you would like London Eye, if you choose to read it. It’s a good mystery, and (though it wasn’t my favorite) I’m glad they chose it as the MG winner.
I should find and read Emiko Superstar; I’m looking forward to seeing what you think of it.
on February 15th, 2009 at 11:08 amLiviania – They do look like some great books! I have a lot of reading ahead of me.
Laura H. – Hunger Games is on my nightstand. I’m hoping to read it this week.
Jenn M. – I think the ALA does a pretty good job as well. But it really fun to have bloggers awards!
Melissa – I’d love to read all of the Middle Grade books, especially the winner. I already had Emiko Superstar checked out from the library and picked it up yesterday and went ahead and read it. I don’t know if I have any days of the month left to review it, but I will next month!
on February 15th, 2009 at 9:13 pmI’m afraid I haven’t read any of them yet but I have four of them on hold at the library now. I’ve heard great things about so many of them.
on February 15th, 2009 at 9:48 pmI’m so happy about Hunger Games! It is my favorite book this year so far, and it will be hard to beat. I literally couldn’t put it down–I even tried reading it while cooking dinner!
on February 16th, 2009 at 1:19 pmThe Graveyard Book was SO good!
on February 16th, 2009 at 6:32 pmThanks for the update! I was at the site last week wondering when the lists would be narrowed down.
on February 16th, 2009 at 7:52 pmBoth the Graveyard book and Hunger Games are on my to read list. Bah, so many books too little time. I’m trying to work my way through Whitney Award winners too. This is the first year I’ve heard of the Cybil awards, and so I’m still trying to figure out how they work. Looks like a great program though.
on February 17th, 2009 at 6:11 pm