The Cybils Award is a book award given by a coalition of children’s and teen’s book bloggers, and about the coolest thing that happened to me last month is that I was selected to be a middle grade judge. Me! Yippee! To be welcomed into this group of uber-bloggers is a real honor. I mean, listen to this quote from their website:
The Cybils have only two criteria: literary merit and kid appeal. We don’t think those two values have to collide. There are books we want kids to read and books kids can’t resist. Somewhere in the middle, they meet.
That’s exactly the same criteria I use when blogging here! *Pause for elated sigh* I spend so much time reading and discussing children’s books with my students, school community, my husband (a grade five teacher), and my daughter (a fifth grader), I am thrilled to join a group of fellow-minded bloggers who command a national audience. I feel like this:
Read more about Cybils here. Want to nominate a book? Click here. (You have until Oct.15.) Want to see the list of books already nominated? Click here.
As a Round 2 Panelist, I don’t really start my role until after the big list becomes a short list (January 1), but the fun has begun!
