The Cybils Awards winners will be announced on Sunday, Feb. 14, Valentine's Day. The Cybils awards (or Children's and Young Adult Bloggers Literary Awards) "aim to recognize the children's and young adult authors and illustrators whose books combine the highest literary merit and popular appeal."I was fortunate to participate in selecting the finalists last fall, along with my fellow poetry judges, Carol Wilcox (Carol�s Corner), Nancy Bo Flood (The Pirate Tree), Tricia Stohr-Hunt (The Miss Rumphius Effect), Irene Latham (Live Your Poem), and Margaret Simon (Reflections on the Teche).What fun to pore over all the nominated poetry from 2015 and whittle down to a handful of books. Our final choices?
The 2015 Poetry Finalists (you'll find complete annotations for these books here)
Earlier this year, another group of judges read and discussed these books and chose ONE as the winner for 2015. I'll post that info on Sunday, as soon as it's public. You can also check at the Cybils site here for that info. This year, we were also able to consider novels in verse, so I'm very happy that this form was included this year. (And there's even talk of creating a separate category for novels in verse which I think would be wonderful!)
All 2015 Nominations for the Cybils Award for Poetry
Anyone can nominate a book for consideration and this year there were 47 poetry titles nominated (the most ever!). Here�s that complete list, fyi:
Novels in verse
1. 5 to 1 by Holly Bodger
2. A Heart Like Ringo Starr by Linda Oatman High
3. Audacity by Melanie Crowder
4. Blue Birds by Caroline Starr Rose
5. Dating Down by Stefanie Lyons
6. Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings by Margarita Engle
7. Full Cicada Moon by Marilyn Hilton
8. House Arrest by K.A. Holt
9. My Seneca Village by Marilyn Nelson
10. Paper Hearts by Meg Wiviott
11. Red Butterfly by A.L. Sonnichsen
12. Skyscraping by Cordelia Jensen
13. The Lost Marble Notebook of Forgotten Girl & Random Boy by Marie Jaskulka
Collections
1. A Great Big Cuddle: Poems for the Very Young by Michael Rosen
2. A Spectacular Selection of Sea Critters: Concrete Poems by Betsy Franco
3. After the Bell Rings: Poems About After-School Time by Carol Diggory Shields
4. An Ambush of Tigers: Collective Nouns by Betsy R. Rosenthal
5. Bigfoot is Missing! by J. Patrick Lewis and Kenn Nesbitt
6. Changes: A Child's First Poetry Collection by Charlotte Zolotow
7. Double Happiness by Nancy Tupper Ling
8. Feeding the Flying Fanellis: And Other Poems from a Circus Chef by Kate Hosford
9. Flutter and Hum / Aleteo y Zumbido: Animal Poems by Julie Paschkis
10. Goodnight Songs: A Celebration of the Seasons by Margaret Wise Brown
11. Hypnotize a Tiger: Poems by Calef Brown
12. Orangutanka: A Story in Poems by Margarita Engle
13. Poems in the Attic by Nikki Grimes
14. Presidential Misadventures: Poems That Poke by Bob Raczka
15. Random Body Parts: Gross Anatomy Riddles in Verse by Leslie Bulion
16. Sail Away by Langston Hughes
17. Salsa: Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem by Jorge Argueta
18. Sing a Season Song by Jane Yolen
19. Sleepy Snoozy Cozy Coozy by Judy Young
20. Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox by Danielle Daniel
21. The Maine Coon's Haiku: And Other Poems for Cat Lovers by Michael J. Rosen
22. The Popcorn Astronauts by Deborah Ruddell
23. The Sky Painter by Margarita Engle
24. Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold by Joyce Sidman
25. Won Ton and Chopstick: A Cat and Dog Tale by Lee Wardlaw
Anthologies
1. A Pirate's Mother Goose by Nancy I. Sanders
2. Amazing Places edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins
3. Beastly Verse illustrated by JooHee Yoon
4. Dear Tomato: An International Crop of Food and Agriculture Poems edited by Carol-Ann Hoyte
5. Jumping Off Library Shelves edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins
6. Monster Goose Nursery Rhymes by Henry, Josh, and Harrison Herz
7. National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry: More than 200 Poems With Photographs That Float, Zoom, and Bloom! edited by J. Patrick Lewis
8. Over the Hills and Far Away: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes edited by Elizabeth Hammill
9. The Death of the Hat: A Brief History of Poetry in 50 Objects edited by Paul B. Janeczko
Congratulations to all the poets, illustrators, editors, and publishers who produced these wonderful works of poetry!
ALL Cybils Award Winners for Poetry (2006-2015)
Here are ALL the poetry winners (including an update with the 2015 winner):
Ten years of Cybils! Woohoo!
And just for you for Valentine's Day, you'll find my previous post about "love" poetry for kids here.
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