The Cybils Awards, or Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards, are a series of book awards given by children’s and young adult book bloggers. The awards were created to address an apparent gap between children’s book awards perceived as too elitist and other awards that did not seem selective enough.
Books are nominated by the public in nine genres of children’s and young adult literature. Nominees go through two rounds of panel-based judging before a winner is announced in each category. Finalists and winners are selected on the basis of literary merit and kid appeal.
Panelists are volunteers and must be active bloggers with extensive experience in children’s or young adult literature, either as readers and enthusiasts or as authors, librarians, booksellers, teachers, or others with verifiable investment in the world of children’s literature.

Several of my favorite authors (including E. Lockhart whom I get to meet in two weeks for a writing conference!) have won. From the list above I’ve read work by Willems, Cashore, and Hales Anderson. All of which write great and tell a good story (though Cashore’s genre isn’t my type.

Thanks so much for bringing this award to my attention. And nice blog, too!