My First 26 Cybils Fiction Picture Books and Board Books for 2022

 

It's October and that means it's Cybils time. As a first round judge for the Cybils Fiction Picture Books and Board Books Awards, I have a huge job: by January 1st, I must read over 200 picture books and board books and decide with a group of others which are the best. This week I read a bunch that I got in from the library. Busy times!

title	author
Ear Worm!	Knowles, Jo
Dancing with Daddy	Schulte, Anitra Rowe
Love in the Library	Tokuda-Hall, Maggie
You Are My Special Narwhal	Wan, Joyce
Cat's First Baby	Nelson, Natalie
Lizzy and the Cloud	Fan, Terry
This Is Music: Drums	Rajan, Rekha S.
Nigel and the Moon	Eady, Antwan
First Notes of Spring	Kulekjian, Jessica
Climb On!	Paul, Baptiste
Old Friends	Aitken, Margaret
All That Is You	Capucilli, Alyssa Satin
Moonlight	Savage, Stephen
Redlocks and the Three Bears	Rueda, Claudia
Midnight and Moon	Cooper, Kelly
Noodles, Please!	Chepusova, Cheryl Yau
Why, Daddy? Why?	Girardi, Tamara
A Family Looks Like Love	Wells, Kaitlyn
Hello, World! Garden Time	McDonald, Jill
Don't Eat Bees: Life Lessons from Chip the Dog	Petty, Dev
Odd Birds: Meet Nature's Weirdest Flock	Gehl, Laura
A Spoonful of Frogs	Lyall, Casey
The Legend of Iron Purl	Nyeu, Tao
Everything in Its Place: A Story of Books and Belonging	David-Sax, Pauline
The Big Scream	Call, Kirsti

And guess what I'm reading now? Right...more Cybils nominees!

Last week I posted here at Readerbuzz: 

The Sunday Salon: Just One Book Read, But It Was a Good One: The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

Words I Love

Book-ish Tombstones

Nonfiction November 2022 is Coming!

It’s almost time for Nonfiction November! Nonfiction is one of my favorite genres, so you can be sure I'll be joining in.

Throughout the month of November, bloggers Jaymi (The OC Book Girl), Rennie (What’s Nonfiction), Christopher (Plucked from the Stacks), Rebekah (She Seeks Nonfiction) and Katie (Doing Dewey) invite you to celebrate Nonfiction November.

Here’s how it will work: Each Monday, a weekly host will post a topic prompt and include a “linky” where you can link your posts and connect with other bloggers. 

Will you be joining in?

My sister and I finally got a chance to celebrate her birthday by having a Paris at Home Day. If you know me, you know how much I love Paris...well, my sister is my Francophile twin. We ate food from Paris and drank French wine and watched Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris. Delightful!

Good Thing #1

My dad was recognized at the Astros playoff game this week

for his service as during World War II. 

The crowd gave him a standing ovation.

Good Thing #2

We saw more butterflies and bees and wasps this week

as we continued to do the Pollinator Bioblitz.

Good Thing #3

We heard an author speak at our local library friends group's annual luncheon.

The author was a chef for the governor and the president

when Bush Jr. held these offices.

The author's a local fellow and it was fun to hear his stories and to taste his recipes.

I'm happy you joined us here at the Sunday Salon. Sunday Salon is a place to link up and to share what we have been doing during the week. It's a great way to visit other blogs and join in the conversations going on there. 

Some of the things we often talk about at the Sunday Salon:

• What was your week like?
• Read any good books? Tell us about them.
• What other bookish things did you do? 
• What else is going on in your life?

Other places where you may like to link up over the weekend are below. Click on the picture to visit the site.

        

My linkup for Sunday Salon is below.