Gather 'round! It's time for the April edition of the Cybils Scribbles. This edition includes: 📚 Celebrating National Poetry Month 📚 A specially curated book list for Earth Day 📚 Wishbone is back (in a documentary) 📚 Other bookish news, recommendations, & more!

Some books are funny; Some books are not. These books have poems; You’ll like them a lot. April is National Poetry Month, and what better way to celebrate than with a good book? We’ve got you covered with some recommendations that’ll make this month a poetic celebration.

Our friend @imtanner.bsky.social recently reviewed Some of Us Are Brave by Saadia Faruqi, a story told from the perspective of three kids who are forced to come together in Houston during Hurricane Harvey.

We’d like to wish our school librarian friends a very happy National School Librarian Day. We could not be more grateful for all the work you do. May your checkouts be bountiful, and may your book cart's wheels never squeak.

With the Artemis II mission in the news, young readers are full of questions about space exploration, the moon, and beyond. We’ve got you covered with seven books that’ll have them (or at least their imaginations) blasting off into space.

From our bookshelf to yours, happy International Children's Book Day! We hope you'll grab a book and celebrate with us.

March is rapidly coming to a close. But look! It's brought the latest edition of the Cybils Scribbles with it on the way out. This edition includes: 📚 A book list for Women’s History Month 📚 S-s-snakesational book recommendations 📚 An American Girl book … for adults?! 📚 Other bookish news & more!

Need some awesome new realistic middle grade fiction? Check out two of my new favorites! Reviews here: www.blogger.com/blog/post/ed... @jamiesumners.bsky.social @netgalley.bsky.social @cybilsawards.bsky.social

🎉 Attention all teachers and librarians! Author Tanita S. Davis is giving away TEN copies of Berry Parker Doesn't Catch Crushes to one lucky classroom or library! 🎉 You can enter to win using the widget on Pop! Goes The Reader here: popgoesthereader.com/interview-ta... #BookSky #MGLit #KidLit

Thank you for this review, @imtanner.bsky.social, and to @cybilsawards.bsky.social for sharing it!

Team member @imtanner.bsky.social recently reviewed The Lions' Run, a historical middle grade novel of courage and resistance, by @sarapennypacker.bsky.social. Find the full review over on her blog, The Book Search: imtanner.blogspot.com/2026/01/midd...

Everything. 💛

Award week seems (to me) to be a very tidy wrapping up of last year's work. I'm pleased and very grateful that the final bow on JIM! comes with this incredible quote: "...a blueprint for all future picture book biographies." Thank you, @cybilsawards.bsky.social and @achrishelton.bsky.social! 🦊⭐⭐⭐

A good book is always necessary, and that’s especially true in tough times. For the latest edition of the Cybils Scribbles, we have you covered with plenty of recommendations.

Team member @achrishelton.bsky.social recently checked out JIM! Six True Stories About One Great Artist: James Marshall by @jerroldconnors.bsky.social. Find his full review over at pluckedfromthestacks.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/j...

Here's to pushing the envelope. The Most Astonishingly Unconventional Children's Books of 2025 100scopenotes.com/2025/12/01/t...

In 2023 I had zero books. Today, my FOURTH book published with Scholastic. Time flies. So do spiders. (Actually, they do something called ballooning.) Please check out my book about creepy-crawlies. 🕷️ DOWN CAME THE SPIDERS

Cabin Head & Tree Head, by Scott Campbell, is an utterly ridiculous and absolutely brilliant beginning graphic novel that's perfect for readers ready for chapter books - and anyone else who likes to laugh. Read my review: www.sonderbooks.com/Childrens_Fi...

We’re thankful for books, the amazing people who create them, and the readers who love them. #kidlitchat

Cybils team member @roesolo.bsky.social recently reviewed a powerful picture book from @highwaterpress.bsky.social, Miya Wears Orange by Wanda John-Kehewin and illustrated by Erika Rodriguez Medina. Find the full review on her blog: momreadit.com

November is in full swing, so it's time for the latest Cybils Scribbles. In this edition: 📚 Celebrating National Native American Heritage Month 📚 A social justice book list for Nonfiction November 📚 News about a new film adaptation of a children’s book classic 📚 And more!

It's time. Vote for your favorite case covers in the 2025 Undies Awards! 100scopenotes.com/2025/11/10/v... @carterhiggins.bsky.social @spikypenelope.bsky.social

Need some great new middle grade speculative fiction? Check out my reviews on my two new favorites! imtanner.blogspot.com/2025/11/new-... @struan-murray.bsky.social @cybilsawards.bsky.social @netgalley.bsky.social

Celebrate Indigenous storytelling this #IndigenousPeoplesDay — and every day! — with these new and upcoming releases from Heartdrum! Here’s every Heartdrum title that’s been published in 2025 — as well as a look ahead at forthcoming 2026 Heartdrum titles that you can pre-order today!

Nominations are now open for the 2025 Undies Case Cover Awards and Endies End Paper Awards! Anyone can nominate a book. Head here to get started: 100scopenotes.com/2025/10/01/n...

It's October, and our team is on the hunt for books that go bump in the night. Fortunately, @anndavilacardinal.bsky.social's newest YA horror novel, You've Awoken Her, more than delivers. Check out this glowing review from @roesolo.bsky.social: momreadit.com/2025/07/25/c...

We don’t have much to add to this week’s chat, but we’re loving this behind-the-scenes look at a (difficult!) part of the writing process. #kidlitchat

What an honor! Thank you @cybilsawards.bsky.social for including SAME PAGE in this important resource alongside these other wonderful reads. @randomhousekids.bsky.social @rhcbschoollibrary.bsky.social

Cathy's book, THE LITTLE RED CHAIR, was a @cybilsawards.bsky.social finalist and is a beautiful look at a family chair loved for generations. She also has a nonfiction book PEW: THE STINKY AND LEGEN-DAIRY GIFT about a 1,400-pound cheese wheel given to President Andrew Jackson.

My friend @cathyso.bsky.social put ONE CAN BE in a @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social in Salem, NH. It has a tall box for adult books, and a short box for kid books. Cathy was in my first critique group. She was a school librarian and also hosted my first author visit. #megakidlit #nh #booksky

We don’t have a uniform, but… 👀

I’m so excited to see Torrible Puns included in this list of amazing poetry books!

It's one of our favorite days of the month. If you haven't yet, scroll through #kidlitartpostcard and be in awe of the amazing skill (and future books?) on display.

On this Random Acts of Poetry Day, here's a little poem for your feed.

bookriot.com/new-host-of-... YAY, #ReadingRainbow is back AND with @mychal3ts.bsky.social as host!!! #ReadingRainbow #KidLit #Books #Librarian #Readers

September is coming to an end, so it's time for the latest Cybils Scribbles over on our Substack. In this edition: 📚 Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month 📚 A World Beach Day book list 📚 A look at how the Cybils is different this year 📚 & more! Check it out: cybilsawards.substack.com/p/september-...

Somehow I managed to miss this sad announcement. I loved working with @cybilsawards.bsky.social. www.cybils.com/2025/06/were...

The Cybils awards are taking a hiatus this year. If you are looking for kidlit, middle grade and YA recs, please check out amazing winners from past years. Every time one of us celebrates a good book on any platform or offline, we are supporting literacy and empathy. Books help.

With the @cybilsawards.bsky.social taking a break this year, I share ways we can champion new release titles. Today, children’s books need powerful platforms and passionate voices, even if they don’t make it to the library shelves. #kidlit #LetKidsRead kidlitgrove.substack.com/p/celebratin...

Also a big shout out to @cybilsawards.bsky.social Being a panelist helped inspire me with my own writing. I also meet some great people in the children writing community! #kidlitchat

Every librarian should read this incredible post called "Librarians Are Dangerous" by @bradmontague.bsky.social today. It truly made my heart sing today. Thank you, Brad! ❤️ (And thank you to Julie W. for sharing it with me this morning.) bradmontague.substack.com/p/librarians... #TLSky #Skybrarian

Today is RIGHT TO READ DAY. Support access to books. Support access to information. Support libraries. Fight for Freedom. The book I'm currently reading is @kylelukoff.bsky.social classic, TOO BRIGHT TO SEE. What are you reading this week?

Happy National Library Week! Shout out to all of the awesome libraries and librarians out there helping readers of all ages and providing positive support and resources for their communities. Team PUNK TACO appreciates you all.

We need a list of volunteers who can be “on deck” for when the need arises to make phone calls, send emails, and/or provide in-person testimony in Austin- related to the freedom to read in TX. Please complete this form if you’re willing to volunteer in this way. www.txftrp.org/89th_leg_tes...

Children’s author Mac Barnett wants the U.S. to appreciate picture books | SF Chronicle

Schedule for reading in the coming week. I'd love to make a chain of little schedules that we can share around and check back so we can always celebrate reading for the @trreadathon.bsky.social live together. If you have a schedule this week PLEASE comment it ♡ we will know who to raid, too! 💙📚🌈

You're team not doing well in the tourney? 🏀 Need break from #MarchMadness? Enter: Scribbles from the CYBILS Morning RSS * Two great articles @ AI * 30 (!) #MGLit books adults will love * 7 book-to-screen adaptations coming this year * How to turn the page on book bans cybilsawards.substac...

Middle Grade readers want properly scary horror, and some of us are itching to write it. But will anyone actually publish it?

The school library can be a safe haven for disenfranchised and disengaged students, which, in turn, can help keep them in school: Tackling Chronic Absenteeism, Districts Turn to School Libraries. #TLSky #EduSky

Happy book birthday to Melissa!! Let us never forget #kidslovenonfiction [and adults, too.]