Cybils Nominations Open Up Tomorrow

Tomorrow, nominations for the 2009 Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards open up and will remain open until October 15th.

Be sure to stop by the Cybils site and nominate your favorite books published between October 16, 2008 and October 15, 2009 in the following genres:

• Fiction Picture Books
• Middle Grade Fiction
• Young Adult Fiction
  
• Nonfiction Picture Books
• Middle Grade/Young Adult Nonfiction
  
• Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Poetry
• Graphic Novels 
• Easy Readers and Short Chapter Books
  

The panelists are being announced are gearing up to see what books in their genre are going to be nominated. I'm super excited to be serving again this year on the Middle Grade/Young Adult Nonfiction Panel.

Here are the panelists and judges in that category:

Panel Organizer: Susan Thomsen, Chicken Spaghetti

Panelists (Round I Judges):
Alicia Blowers, The LibrariYAn
Sarah Rettger, Archimedes Forgets
Jennie Rothschild, Biblio File
Jill Tullo, The Well-Read Child (me!!!)
Erin Walker, Erin Explores YA

Round II Judges:
Wendy Burton, Six Boxes of Books
Jennifer Donovan, 5 Minutes for Books
Dave Judge, Adventures at Wilder Farm (Author Lita Judge's blog)
Colleen Mondor, Chasing Ray
Lisa L. Owens, L.L. Owens-Children's Writing Blog

I can't wait to see what gets nominated!