Small Reads for Brighters Days
As I did last year, I’m going to share some lists of un-nominated books here, in the hopes that someone will nominate them. In my opinion, the more books we have to consider for the CYBILS honors, the better! Today, I’m sharing books from Wordsong that haven’t yet been nominated. Barefoot [Addendum: Now nominated–thank you!] Black […]
I’m thrilled to be participating in the CYBILS again this year! This web award for kidslit has nine categories this year (including the new Easy Reader category), and you can start nominating (one in each category) on October 1. Start thinking! I’m on the Poetry Panel with four other poetry-lovers, and we five will narrow […]
The Cybils have been announced, and This Is Just to Say, by Joyce Sidman, won for poetry. Yea! This is one of my top two favorite poetry books of 2007 (and now both have won major awards, hint, hint). It was fun being on the nominating committee for the Cybils, and I’m so pleased that this […]
OK, I swear I double-checked to make sure this title was not yet nominated for a Cybils. That’s my goal, to spread the word about some un-nominated poetry collections in the hopes that people will check out the books and someone will like them enough to nominate them. I suppose I was predisposed to […]
Here’s another poetry book not yet nominated for a Cybils. Over the past few days, I’ve read Poems in Black & White, by Kate Miller (Wordsong, 2007) two times. It’s filled with the kinds of poems that stay with me, that pop into my head at odd moments throughout the day. The premise is […]
Here’s another poetry book not yet nominated for a Cybils award. Yesterday, I read Bugs: Poems About Creeping Things, by David L. Harrison, illustrated by Rob Shepperson (Wordsong, 2007). This collection of 40 poems about the things I try to avoid whenever possible (boxelders congregating around our electric meter and trying to find a way into the […]
