cybilslogoToday was the day Cybils Award watchers!  After months of hard work by countless organizers, panelists and judges twelve awesome books were announced as the ultimate winners in their respective categories.

There is a wonderful post complete with descriptions of each book over on the Cybils blog so please go on over and read what people have to say about all the greatness.

I’m also going to go ahead and post the complete list here for you so enjoy:

  • Fiction: Easy Readers – Watch Me Throw the Ball by Mo Willems
  • Fiction: Short Chapter Book – Bad to the Bone (Down Girl and Sit) by Lucy Nolan; illustrated by Mike Reed
  • Fiction: Fantasy & Science Fiction (MG) – Dreamdark: Silksinger (Faeries of Dreamdark) by Laini Taylor
  • Fiction: Fantasy & Science Fiction (YA) – Fire by Kristin Cashore
  • Fiction: Picture Books – All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon; illustrated by Marla Frazee
  • Fiction: Middle Grade – Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Fiction: Young Adult – Cracked Up to Be by Courtney Summers
  • Non-Fiction: Picture Books – The Day-Glo Brothers by Chris Barton; illustrated by Tony Persiani
  • Non-Fiction: Middle Grade/Young Adult – The Frog Scientist by Pamela S. Turner; illustrated by Andy Comins
  • Graphic Novels: Middle Grade – The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook by Eleanor Davis
  • Graphic Novels: Young Adult – Gunnerkrigg Court: Orientation by Tom Siddell
  • Poetry – Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors by Joyce Sidman; illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski

Congratulations to all of the winners!