| Cybils Awards | |
|---|---|
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| Awarded for | Literary merit and kid appeal in children's and young adult literature |
| Presented by | Bloggers with expertise in children's literature |
| First awarded | 2006 |
| Website | cybils |
The Cybils Awards, or Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards, are a set of annual book awards given by people who blog about children's and young adult books.[1] Co-founded by Kelly Herold and Anne Boles Levy in 2006,[2] the awards were created to address an apparent gap between children's book awards perceived as too elitist and other awards that did not seem selective enough.[3]
Books are nominated by the public in ten genres of children's and young adult literature: Book Apps, Easy Readers & Short Chapter Books, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fiction Picture Books, Graphic Novels, Middle Grade Novels, Non-Fiction Middle Grade/Young Adult Books, Non-Fiction Picture Books, Poetry, and Young Adult Novels. Nominees go through two rounds of panel-based judging before a winner is announced in each category. Finalists and winners are selected on the basis of literary merit and kid appeal.[4]
Panelists are volunteers and must be active bloggers with extensive experience in children's or young adult literature, either as readers and enthusiasts or as authors, librarians, booksellers, teachers, or others with verifiable investment in the world of children's literature.
- ^ "The Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards". KidLitosphere Central. Archived from the original on 2009-03-02. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
- ^ "There's a New Award in Town". School Library Journal. 2008-03-01. Archived from the original on 2012-02-17. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
- ^ "Bloggers Start Children's Awards". Publishers Weekly. 2006-11-09. Archived from the original on October 10, 2008. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
- ^ "Gaiman, Lockhart Nab Cybils – 2/17/2009 – School Library Journal". School Library Journal. 2009-02-17. Archived from the original on 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2023-03-21.