Cybils award winners announced
The winners of the 2010 Cybils Awards, the children’s and young adult bloggers’ literary awards, have been announced.
The winner of the prize for best graphic novel in the elementary and middle grade category is Jason Shiga’s Meanwhile, which is basically the world’s most complicated choose-your-own-adventure book. What begins with a choice between vanilla and chocolate becomes a trip through a labyrinth of possibilities—3,856 possibilities according to Shiga, who has presumably done the math. If you want to check it out, he has a lite version at his site.
Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty, written by G. Neri and illustrated by Randy DuBurke, took the honors for best graphic novel in the young adult category. This is a much more serious book, built on the true story of an 11-year-old boy who accidentally killed a young girl, but branching out into a semi-fictional story of its own.
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About Brigid Alverson
Brigid Alverson, the editor of the Good Comics for Kids blog, has been reading comics since she was 4. She has an MFA in printmaking and has worked as a book editor and a newspaper reporter; now she is assistant to the mayor of Melrose, Massachusetts. In addition to editing GC4K, she writes about comics and graphic novels at MangaBlog, SLJTeen, Publishers Weekly Comics World, Comic Book Resources, MTV Geek, and Good E-Reader.com. Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters in college, which is why she writes so much. She was a judge for the 2012 Eisner Awards.
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