Happy Day! Happy News!

I'm in a daze. It's a daze of happiness. With a bit of fear. I got a call yesterday. The amazing Terry Doherty had to step away from her role with the 2016 Cybils unexpectedly and she offered the car keys to me.  I took the keys. I am...wait for it...the Category Chair for the Cybils 2016 Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards Fiction Picture Books.  Whew. You know me. Fiction picture books are my world. I've had many huge happy moments in the children's book world. I posted my Mo Willems and Me pictures from BEA in Chicago last May outside my school library and I had a gazillion people say to me, "You...met...Mo...Willems???" I was chosen as an onsite correspondent for BEA last year. I was asked to be the moderator for the Five Funny Guys panel at TweenReads last year. My school was asked to host Jon Klassen the year he won the Caldecott.  I won a grant to build five Little Free Libraries for children's books. I've been an author escort for the Children's Reading Tent at the Texas Book Festival many, many times. I'm over halfway through reading the 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up.  And I've been a judge for the Cybils in 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, and 2008, serving as a panelist for nonfiction picture books, easy readers, early chapter books, and, yes, fiction picture books.  But this is the Mt. Everest of huge happy moments in the children's book world.  Thrilled. And scared. I need to get busy. Judges for Cybils panels will be announced tomorrow. Nominations for the Cybils will open on October 1. I hope you will stop by and nominate away for your favorite children and young adult books.

What Arrived in the Mail What I Read Last Week

What are you reading today? 

What is the Sunday Salon? Imagine some university library's vast reading room. It's filled with people--students and faculty and strangers who've wandered in. They're seated at great oaken desks, books piled all around them,and they're all feverishly reading and jotting notes in their leather-bound journals as they go. Later they'll mill around the open dictionaries and compare their thoughts on the afternoon's literary intake....That's what happens at the Sunday Salon, except it's all virtual. Every Sunday the bloggers participating in that week's Salon get together--at their separate desks, in their own particular time zones--and read. And blog about their reading. And comment on one another's blogs. Think of it as an informal, weekly, mini read-a-thon, an excuse to put aside one's earthly responsibilities and fall into a good book. Click here to join the Salon.

The Sunday Post is a meme hosted by Kimba at Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It's a chance to share news and recap the past week.

Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia at The Printed Page. We share books that we found in our mailboxes last week. 

 It is now being hosted here.

Stacking the Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews in which you can share the books you've acquired.

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in between!  This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from! I love being a part of this and I hope you do too! It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is now being hosted at The Book Date.

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