I'm eligible to enter this fun challenge from Cybils Awards, even though I am serving as a Round One Panelist for the Fiction Picture Book and Board Book categories.
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This new challenge allows me to explore the OTHER categories and choose for myself the titles that I believe (hope) will be on the shortlist for that category.
In my case, I'm a fan of graphic books for the slightly younger set, and so I gave that long list of nominees a close look.
It turns out that I've read quite a few, enough to settle on my "fantasy" offering for the shortlist.
Here they are:
The City on the Other Side By Mairghread Scott
Be Prepared By Vera Brosgol
Fox & Chick: The Party: and Other Stories By Sergio Ruzzier
The Witch Boy By Molly Knox Ostertag
Undocumented: A Worker's Fight By Duncan Tonatiuh
The Cardboard Kingdom By Chad Sell
Good Rosie! By Kate DiCamillo
Feel free to look over the eligible books in that link above and make your own choices in this or any category.If you aren't familiar with the ever-expanding options in this category, click on the titles and check them out for yourselves. I suspect you'll be pleasantly surprised and find some exciting new offerings for your home, classroom, or library.
Wish me luck- the challenge runs from December 21 to December 30, so you can still enter this or other categories. Just post your choices and link the post to twitter #CybilsShortlilst.
And stay tuned for the official short list announcements for every category, coming on JANUARY !, 2019! That's when the finalists judges get to work, narrowing down, discussing, and reviewing the shortlist titles to settle on a single winner in each category.
They need about six weeks for that thoughtful process, so look for the actual winners to be announced on February 14! Then share the love of books with everyone you know!
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