The Cybils Awards for 2006 have been announced! This is a wonderful list! Kudos to everyone involved!From their press release:
The awards cap five months of activity by roughly 80 volunteers, who plowed through 482 books nominated by the public at the Cybils blog, www.cybils.com . The contest grew out of a comment on a blog post last October and rapidly gained traction in the tight-knit community of librarians, teachers, homeschoolers, parents, authors and illustrators, dubbed the "kidlitosphere."The idea was to find books with literary merit that kids couldn't put down, striking a balance between the highbrow Newberys, for example, and the populist Quill awards.
Any children's or young adult title published in English in 2006 was eligible, and anyone could nominate a book.
