2016 Cybils Awards Winners
Winners for the 2016 Children’s and Young Adults Bloggers’ Literary Awards (Cybils) were announced on February 14, 2017. Books of genre interest are listed below:
Audiobooks
- The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog, Adam Gidwitz (Listening Library)
- Out of Abaton: The Wooden Prince, John Claude Bemis (Oasis)
- When the Sea Turned to Silver, Grace Lin (Hachette)
Elementary/Middle Grade Graphic Novels
- Lowriders to the Center of the Earth, Cathy Camper & Raul the Third (Chronicle)
- Mighty Jack, Ben Hatke (First Second)
- The Nameless City, Faith Erin Hicks & Jordie Bellaire (First Second)
- Princess Princess Ever After, Katie O’Neill (Oni)
- Bera the One-Headed Troll, Eric Orchard (First Second)
Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction
- Shadow Magic, Joshua Khan (Disney-Hyperion)
- The Firefly Code, Megan Frazer Blakemore (Bloomsbury USA)
- The Goblin’s Puzzle: Being the Adventures of a Boy with No Name and Two Girls Called Alice, Andrew Chilton (Knopf)
- The Voyage to Magical North, Claire Fayers (Henry Holt)
- When the Sea Turned to Silver, Grace Lin (Little, Brown)
- The Memory Thief, Bryce Moore (Adaptive)
- The Evil Wizard Smallbone, Delia Sherman (Candlewick)
Young Adult Speculative Fiction
- Illuminae, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Knopf)
- Labyrinth Lost, Zoraida Cordova (Sourcebooks Fire)
- The Door at the Crossroads, Zetta Elliott (Rosetta)
- Still Life with Tornado, A.S. King (Dutton)
- When the Moon was Ours, Anna-Marie McLemore (Thomas Dunne)
- The Keeper of the Mist, Rachel Neumeier (Knopf)
- This Savage Song, Victoria Schwab (Greenwillow)
The Cybils Awards “aims to recognize the children’s and young adult authors and illustrators whose books combine the highest literary merit and popular appeal.”
For a complete list of winners, see the Cybils official site.
