The Cybils

I am honored to have been selected as a judge for the nonfiction picture book category for the Cybil awards in the company of  these fabulous bloggers. You can nominate your favorite here through October 15. Scroll down and select the appropriate category. Jone MacCulloch has done a great job of organizing our category.

Panel Organizer: Jone MacCulloch, Check It Out

Panelists (Round I Judges):

Bill and Karen, Literate Lives
Kara Dean, Not Just For Kids
Amanda Goldfuss, ACPL Mock Sibert
Jone Rush MacCulloch (see panel organizer)
Debbie Nance, Readerbuzz
Franki Sibberson, A Year of Reading
Carol Wilcox, Carol’s Corner

Round II Judges:

J.L. Bell, Oz and Ends
Shirley Smith Duke, SimplyScience
Roberta Gibson, Wrapped in Foil
Emily Mitchell, Emily Reads
Carol Hampton Rasco, Rasco from RIF

Visit nonfiction Monday at Moms Inspire Learning and look for Redwoods by Jason Chin, among many other great books.

Nonfiction Monday

 

Welcome to Nonfiction Monday. Leave your information and link in the comment section and I’ll post the entries as they arrive throughout the day.

1. Shirley at SimplyScience has Faces of the Moon.

2.  Loree Griffin Burns at A Life in Books has Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop’s SAVING THE GHOST OF THE MOUNTAIN.

3. In Need of Chocolate  has Boy Were We Wrong About the Dinosaurs.

4.  A Fuse #8 Production has Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo da Vinci by Gene Barretta.

5. Andrea at Just One More Book  has a chat about Let Freedom Sing by Vanessa Newton.

6. 100 Scope Notes has a review of Show Off by Sarah Hines Stephens & Bethany Mann.

7. Bookends A Book List Blog has The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous Stupendous Life of P.T. Barnum by Candace Fleming.

8. Wild About Nature has Heidi Bee Roemer reviewing Big, Bigger, Biggest by Nancy Coffelt.

9. Jennifer at JeanLittleLibraryhas Moving Day by Pamela Hickman.

10. Charlotte at Charlotte’s Library has two non-fiction books about fantasy creatures.

11. The second reading list for the ACPL Mock Sibert discussion is now available.

12. Lori Calabrese Writes! reviews Ask Me Anything by Richard Walker.

13. Robin at The Book Nosher has You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?

14. INK: Interesting Nonfiction for Kids has recent posts by authors Melissa Stewart, Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, Sue Macy, Anna M. Lewis, April Pulley Sayre, and Susan Kuklin.

15. Amanda at A Patchwork of Books has a review of Faith.

16. Maples and Fiddleheads has a review of Flags of the World.

17. Roberta at Wrapped In Foil reviews a book about baby spiders.

18. Anastasia at Picture Book of the Day has Wildfire.

19. Abby (the) Librarian has several nonfiction titles from Bearport.

Nonfiction Monday Round-up

Welcome to the Nonfiction Monday Round-up!

Here’s what the kidlitosphere is reading this week…

Add your post to the round-up by writing your info in the comments. Please write the title of your book or topic (in parentheses) and paste in the link for it. I’ll post the links on this page as the day goes on. Thanks for bearing with me–I had a school visit this morning and just caught up!

1. JustOneMoreBook! (Cookies: Bite Size Life Lessons)

2. Fuse #8 (How to Scratch a Wombat by Jackie French)

3. JeanLittleLibrary (Mysterious Universe by Ellen Jackson)

4. Abby the Librarian (All About Sleep)

5. Lori Calabrese Writes! (Lincoln Through the Lens)

6. BookMoot  (Extreme animals: the toughest creatures on Earth by Nicola Davies)

7. Check It Out (Flip, Float, Fly)

8. Sweetness and Light (The Four Seasons of Mary Azarian)

9. Book Scoops (honeybees)

10. A Patchwork of Books (Bodies from the Ice)

11. Jennie at Biblio File (The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down and The Glass Castle)

12. Wendie’s Wanderings (Sibert Medal winner — We Are the Ship)

13. Miss Rumphius Effect (Bees, Snails & Peacock Tails)

Nonfiction Monday Round-up

Welcome to the Nonfiction Monday Round-up!

Here’s what the kidlitosphere is reading this week…

Add your post to the round-up by writing your info in the comments. Please write the title of your book or topic (in parentheses) and paste in the link for it. I’ll post the links on this page as the day goes on. Thanks!

1. 100 Scope Notes (Duke Ellington: His Life in Jazz with 21 Activities)

2. On the Scale, a Weighty Tale (a rhyming book about mass and weight)

3. Lori Calabrese Writes! (Howard Thurman’s Great Hope)

4. Trouble Talk by Trudy Ludwig

5. Abby (the) Librarian  (Swords: An Artist’s Devotion by Ben Boos)

6. Nonfiction Nuggets (Living Large – 3 books on size)

7. Charlotte’s Library (The Search for Antarctic Dinosaurs)