The Cybils are Announced!

The 2009 Cybils winners have been posted!

As always, it's a great group of books. I was a member of the poetry committee that chose Joyce Sidman's Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors (with illustrations that nabbed a Caldecott honor by Pamela Zagarenski). It's a knockout of a book.

Congatulations to all the winners, quite a few of whom I know this year. If the other categories were like Poetry, these were hard choices as there simply is sooooo much good stuff out there. So check out the short lists, too, if you're in need of books to read or recommend.