Playing by the book

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The best children’s books chosen by bloggers aka The Cybils winners

Although things may have appeared all cool, calm and collected on the blog front this last month (ha!), I’ve been feverishly beavering away behind the scenes acting as a judge for The Cybils. The Cybils awards are given each year by bloggers, for the year’s best children’s and young adult titles published in the US. [...]

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Cybils nominees: Three books by Atinuke

Only one author has three books on the longlist for a Cybil Award in the the Early Chapter Book category and that is the Nigerian born, UK based Atinuke. The No. 1 Car Spotter is set in an unnamed African village and follows a few months in the life of a young boy called Oluwalase [...]

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Cybils nominee: The One and Only Stuey Lewis

The One and Only Stuey Lewis by Jane Schoenberg, illustrated by Cambria Evans (nominated for the Cybils by Sarah Wendorf at Page in Training) is the first book I’ve read with my book-judging hat on, and if all the books I read as part of the Cybils judging process are as good as this, I’m [...]

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