Now that the Cybils results are out, I can finally post reviews of my Cybils reads! As you may have read earlier, my bookish year started off with round 2 judging of the Cybils (the Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards), where I was in the panel for Graphic Novels.
It’s not easy finding the finalist titles here in Manila (I think only three are available in local bookstores, this being one of them) but luckily some publishers have transmitted evaluation copies electronically and there were some books dispatched in the mail so that made it easier for me.
Anyway, as I’m writing a whole bunch of reviews, let me start off with Secret Coders by Gene Luen Yang (recently named by the US Library of Congress as a National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature) and Mike Holmes.