Gail Gauthier's Blog: Gail Gauthier Reads - Posts Tagged "cybils"

In all likelihood, my Goodreads Friends are familiar with the Cybils, the Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards. I was a panelist the first year and a judge either the second or third. It was a great time. I pretty much gave up work and read for more than a month that first year.

I can't do that kind of thing these days, but I can nominate books. Nominating books for a Cybil (you can nominate ten, actually, one in each category) is an opportunity to bring more attention to books you believe are deserving.

Nominations aren't open yet, but when I hear they are, I'll post again.

I did some binge reading at the end of last year off the Cybils nomination lists. But I also just happened to have read a few books over the course of the year that would later end up being nominated. What follows is a roundup of my Cybils reading. A lot of these things I reviewed here at GoodReads.

Fox and Crow Are Not Friends, Melissa Wiley

Ivy + Bean No News Is Good News, Annie Barrows

The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, The Unseen Ghost Maryrose Wood

The One and Only Ivan, Katherine Applegate

Cinder, Marissa Meyer

The Brides of Rollrock Island, Margo Lanagan

Fangbone! Third Grade Barbarian, Michael Rex

Friends With Boys, Faith Erin Hicks

One for the Murphys, Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Ungifted, Gordon Korman

Minette's Feast, Susannah Reich

Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein

I Hunt Killers, Barry Lyga

Keeping the Castle, Patrice Kindl

Scarlet, A.C. Gaughen

First off, you only have until October 15th to get your Cybils' nominations in.

Now that I have that out of the way, let's go over my plans for Cybils Season. The last few years, I've read off the Cybils' nomination lists and posted responses at my blog, giving the nominees a little more Internet attention. I'm not going to be able to keep up with that kind of reading this fall, but this is a festive time of year, and I don't want to ignore the Cybils.

So this year I'm going to be dipping into Original Content's archives and posting material from my Cybils' responses from past years. This gives me an opportunity to both do a little cybilizing and remind a few people about nominees from other years.

Because if a book was good the year it was published, it's still good now.