Welcome to the Cybils Awards low season!
We’ve had a lot nice response to our booklists that we’re going run themed lists twice a month, made up of previous Cybils nominees, finalists and winners.
In case you’d prefer to take part, e-mail us a themed listing of your favourite books to blogeditor@cybils.com. In case you need assistance pondering of books take a look at our lists of finalists over at cybils.com.
We will’t wait to see what you provide you with!
Jukebox
by Nidhi Chanani
First Second
2021 Finalist, Elementary/Center Grade Graphic Novels
Blackbird Fly
by Erin Entrada Kelly
Greenwillow Books
2015 Finalist, Center Grade Fiction
Frank and Bean
by Jamie Michalak, illustrated by Bob Kolar
Candlewick
2019 Finalist, Straightforward Reader
Jasmine Toguchi, Drummer Woman
by Debbi Michiko Florence, illustrated by Elizabet Vukovic
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2019 Finalist, Straightforward Reader
Jasmine Toguchi, Drummer Woman
by Walter Dean Myers; illustrated by Christopher Myers
Vacation Home
2006 Finalist, Poetry
One Final Phrase: Knowledge from the Harlem Renaissance
by Nikki Grimes
Bloomsbury Youngsters’s Books
2017 Finalist, Poetry
The Orphan Band of Springdale
by Anne Nesbit
Candlewick
2018 Finalist, Center Grade Fiction
Penny and Her Track
by Kevin Henkes
Greenwillow Books
2012 Finalist, Straightforward Reader
Playlist: The Rebels and Revolutionaries of Sound
by James Rhodes, illustrated by Martin O’Neill
Candlewick Studio
2019 Finalist, Excessive Faculty Nonfiction
Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald
by Roxane Orgill, illustrated by Sean Qualls
Candlewick
2010 Finalist, Elementary Nonfiction
Sonny’s Bridge: Jazz Legend Sonny Rollins Finds His Groove
by Barry Wittenstein, illustrated by Keith Mallett
Charlesbridge
2019 Finalist, Elementary Nonfiction
Queen of Tejano Music: Selena
by Silvia López, illustrated by Paola Escobar
Little Bee Books
2020 Nominee, Elementary Nonfiction
BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns, & Moonage Daydreams
by Michael Allred and Steve Horton, illustrated by Laura Allred
Perception Comics
2020 Nominee, Younger Grownup Graphic Novels
Unusual Fruit: Billie Vacation and the Energy of a Protest Track
by Gary Golio, illustrated by Charlotte Riley-Webb
Millbrook Press
2017 Nominee, Center Grade Nonfiction
Music Is . . .
by Brandon Stosuy, illustrated by Amy Martin
Little Simon
2016 Nominee, Board Books
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