{"id":153,"date":"2017-02-17T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:44:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:44:52","slug":"icymi-2016-cybils-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: The 2016 Cybils Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-8YtZCGRWsFo\/V9H-4u8kmJI\/AAAAAAAAGls\/zTJXFnqd7IgbbaDsa4KmXEP0kuHDS4J2wCPcB\/s1600\/Cybils-Logo-2016-Web-Lg.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"206\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Cybils-Logo-2016-Web-Lg.png\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>While we were all celebrating Valentine&#8217;s Day\/not celebrating Valentine&#8217;s Day\/lamenting the latest political news, there was another occurrence of note on February 14th: the final announcement of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybils.com\/2017\/02\/the-2016-cybils-winners.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cybils winners<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Over the past month and a half, the Round 2 judges have been busily reading and pondering the shortlists and coming to a decision about the ultimate winning titles for 2016. Over in the Graphic Novels category, we had TWO shortlists&#8211;one for Elementary\/Middle Grade books and one for YA titles. I&#8217;ll be posting my own impressions of the GN winners and finalists over the coming weeks, but in the meantime, here&#8217;s a list of all the winning books (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybils.com\/2017\/02\/the-2016-cybils-winners.html\" target=\"_blank\">click here for full descriptions<\/a> of each one with links to buy):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Audiobooks<\/b>: <i>The Inquisitor\u2019s Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog<\/i> by Adam Gidwitz&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>Board Books<\/b>: <i>Cityblock (Alphablock)<\/i> by Christopher Franceschelli, illustrated by Peskimo&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>Early Chapter Books<\/b>: <i>Mango &amp; Bambang: The Not-a-Pig (Book One)<\/i> by Polly Faber&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>Easy Reader<\/b>: <i>Snail and Worm: Three Stories About Two Friends<\/i> by Tina Kugler&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>Elementary Non-Fiction<\/b>: <i>Giant Squid<\/i> by Candace Fleming, illustrated by Eric Rohmann&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>Elementary\/Middle Grade Graphic Novels<\/b>: <i>Lowriders to the Center of the Earth (Book 2) (Lowriders in Space)<\/i> by Cathy Camper and Ra\u00fal the Third&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>Elementary\/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction<\/b>: <i>Shadow Magic<\/i> by Joshua Khan&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>Fiction Picture Books<\/b>: <i>A Hungry Lion, or A Dwindling Assortment of Animals<\/i> by Lucy Ruth Cummins&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>Juvenile Non-Fiction<\/b>: <i>Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. Whit<\/i>e by Melissa Sweet&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>Middle School Fiction<\/b>: <i>Ghost (Track)<\/i> by Jason Reynolds&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>Middle Grade Non-Fiction<\/b>: <i>Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor\u2019s Story<\/i> by Caren Stelson&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>Poetry<\/b>: <i>The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary<\/i> by Laura Shovan&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>Young Adult Fiction<\/b>: <i>Salt to the Sea<\/i> by Ruta Sepetys&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>Young Adult Graphic Novels<\/b>: <i>March: Book Three<\/i> by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>Young Adult Non-Fiction<\/b>: <i>Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea<\/i> by Sungju Lee and Susan McClelland&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b>Young Adult Speculative Fiction<\/b>: <i>Illuminae <\/i>by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bonus: the Cybils got a wonderful mention of genre winners and finalists in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/News\/2017\/02\/2016-cybils-awards-winners\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Locus<\/i> Magazine<\/a>! We&#8217;re not worthy, we&#8217;re not worthy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we were all celebrating Valentine&#8217;s Day\/not celebrating Valentine&#8217;s Day\/lamenting the latest political news, there was another occurrence of note on February 14th: the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,60,61,10],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-book-news","tag-cybils-news","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9225,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/9225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}