Elementary/Middle-Grade Graphic Novel:
A FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING by Dan Santat
First Second Books

YA Graphic Novel:
IN LIMBO by Deb JJ Lee
First Second Books

Middle-Grade Fiction:
SIMON SORT OF SAYS by Erin Bow
Disney Hyperion, Rick Riordan Presents

YA Fiction:
WE DESERVE MONUMENTS by Jas Hammonds
Roaring Brook Press

Read the blurbs and why our judges chose these books: cybils.com/2024/02/announ…

this is one of my favorite book awards, and my favorite category. congratulations winners, and thank you judges & panelists!!!

Honored that A FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING has won the Cybils Awards for Best Elementary/Middle Grade Graphic Novel for 2023. ❤️🙏 First Second MacKids Books

Introducing ....

#CYBILS2023 Speculative Fiction Finalists: Elementary/Middle-Grade + Young Adult

cybils.com/2024/01/cybils…

And THIS is the shortlist I'm MOST EXCITED about 🤩
Being a Round 1 reader for the graphic novel prize was an enormous privilege. Thank you Cybils Awards for the opportunity 😍

See my reviews in the main post for Dan Santat & Mark Crilley & also those of my lovely co-judges 🥰

As Executive Director of the Cybils Awards, I’m proud of the hard work of our judges and category chairs and the amazing, diverse lists they selected of the best books of the year for children & teens. Check them out at the link! Congrats to the authors & illustrators! #cybils

As a Round 1 judge, I'm reading for the #CYBILS2023 #graphicnovel prize & sharing my reads as I go along, in no particular order
Cybils Awards
Kristen Marie 🏳️‍🌈

Day 18 🇲🇽🇺🇸🚙👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🧑🏽‍🤝‍🧑🏽👭🏽👫🏽Mexikid by Pedro Martin
@GuppyBooks World Kid Lit: global literature for young people

#middlegrade #kidlit

As a Round 1 judge, I'm reading for the #CYBILS2023 #graphicnovel prize & sharing my reads as I go along, in no particular order
Cybils Awards
Kristen Marie 🏳️‍🌈

Day 19 💇🏾🎒🇩🇴🇺🇸Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega & rose bousamra 🌹🌙
First Second

#middlegrade #kidlit

As a Round 1 judge, I'm reading for the #CYBILS2023 #graphicnovel prize & sharing my reads as I go along, in no particular order
Cybils Awards
Kristen Marie 🏳️‍🌈

Day 10 🎶🪀🏆 Freestyle by 🐰 gale galligan 🐰
Philippe Gratton

#middlegrade #kidlit

As a Round 1 judge, I'm reading for the #CYBILS2023 #graphicnovel prize & sharing my reads as I go along, in no particular order
Cybils Awards
Kristen Marie 🏳️‍🌈

Day 11 🇵🇹🎭👩🏽‍❤️‍👩🏽 Pardalita by Joana Estrela (tr. by Lyn Miller-Lachmann 🇺🇦)
Levine Querido

#YA #kidlit

Yep. This. Is. It. You have until 11:59 PT tonight ... not gonna be up that late on a school night? Then go now.
cybils.com

New on the blog - All the books waiting hopefully to be nominated for #CYBILS2023 . A category-by-category screenshot of the Eligible-But-Not-Yet-Nominated shelf. cybils.com/2023/10/lookin…

Can our judges ever have too many books? Of course not! In fact, Middle-Grade Fiction chair Melissa Fox has discovered a few more books that she really, Really, REALLY hopes get nominated this year.
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Remember yesterday when Beth said she wanted the 'best of the best' in Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction? Well, we just so happened to have a list for that. These are the books that Charlotte Taylor (aka @CharlottesLib) wants nominated for her judges.

Can you help a reader out?

Want to see all the books that everyone hopes get nominated in one fell swoop? Check this out: open.substack.com/pub/cybilsawar…

yes. Charlotte wants all the pretty books (lots more than are shown here!)

Need something to nominate? Then check out this lovely little post by our @BookGoil (Graphic Novels chair) with some suggestions across a lot of categories. Read it at your speed here: buff.ly/3ZQQnHw #CYBILS2023