The Cybils Awards • www.cybils.com

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. 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.

Now in the fifth year, we’re comprised of 100+ bloggers who write about children’s and teen’s books every day. We open our nominations to the public. One group of panelists in each genre narrows the selections down to a “short list” of finalists. Those books go to a second round of judges to select the final Cybils winner in each category.

Nominations for the 2010 awards closed as of October 15, 2010. The finalists were announced January 1, 2011 with the winner in each category announced on February 14, 2011. The winners are:

Fiction Picture Books: Interrupting Chicken, by David Ezra Stein

Nonfiction Picture Books: The Extraordinary Life of Mark Twain (According to Susy), by Barbara Kerley

Easy Readers: We Are in a Book! by Mo Willems

Short Chapter Books: Zapato Power: Freddie Ramos Takes Off by Jacqueline Jules

Poetry: Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse, by Marilyn Singer, illustrated by Josée Masse

Graphic Novels: Meanwhile: Pick Any Path. 3856 Story Possibilities, by Jason Shiga

Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Shadows, The Books of Elsewhere, Vol. 1, by Jacqueline West

Middle Grader Fiction: The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, by Tom Angleberger

Nonfiction Young Adult: The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing, by Suzanne Jurmain

Graphic Novel, Young Adult: Yummy; The Last Days of a Southside Shorty, by G. Neri, illustrated by Randy duBurke

Fantasy/Science Fiction Young Adult: Rot & Ruin, by Jonathan Maberry

Young Adult Fiction: Split, by Swati Avasthi

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