Now headed into its third year, the team behind The Children's and Young Adults Literary Awards, also known as the Cybils, has begun the process of finding and recognizing the best books of 2008. And now I can count myself as part of that team! I will be serving as a panelist on the Easy Reader Group. This is a new category for the Cybils, and I'm psyched to be a part of bringing recognition to what is often an overlooked category within children's literature. The Easy Reader level is where the excellence of craft is most appreciated; think of the the Elephant and Piggy Books, or Little Bear, where so much good writing is unleashed with so little text.
The panels and judges for the other nine categories will be posted over the coming days. All fun stuff!
You can read about the 2007 Cybil winners here.
2 comments:
Woo-hoo! It is going to be a great year for early readers!
Ya know it. World domination, here we come! ^_^
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