Cybils early chapters 2013: Statistics

Every year I've done something a little different for a Cybils statistics post. My first year, 2009 (Easy Readers/Early Chapters), I posted a list of all my reviews and what I was doing with the review copies. In 2010, (Fiction Picture Books) I reviewed every single title and had only energy enough for a quick commentary on the shortlists of various categories by the end. In 2011 (Nonfiction Picture Books), I posted a more complex shortlist commentary, but I also broke down all the nonfiction nominations by subject, type of illustration, etc. In 2012 I was on the Graphic panel and also took over Nonfiction Picture Books as category chair. I posted a list of all the Cybils titles I purchased for my library as well as a break-down of the graphic nominations by genre. I also posted a reflection on collaboration and the benefits of Cybils (in addition to reading lots of great books!).

This year I have a running list of every Cybils nomination I've reviewed, but I also returned to my first love, Easy Readers/Early Chapters and continued as chair of the newly reorganized Elementary/Middle Grade Nonfiction categories. SO MUCH DATA. I've mostly looked at titles libraries would have on their shelves, so the data doesn't include several self-published or very small press items. My library is in a consortium of 42 libraries, with access to a huge range of libraries across the state, in case you're wondering if I had a truly representative sample.

Early Chapters: 44 nominations

• 30 titles (estimate) were entries in a series. 2 titles from the same series were nominated from 3 series.

Early Chapters: The protagonists

• Girls
• Amelia Bedelia means business
• Clementine and the spring trip
• Nancy Clancy secret admirer
• Heidi Heckelbeck goes to camp
• Ivy and Bean take the case
• Kelsey Green, reading queen
• Like bug juice on a burger
• Lulu and the cat in the bag
• Lulu and the dog from the sea
• My happy life
• Princess Posey and the new first grader
• Starring Jules as herself
• Starring Jules in drama-rama
• Stella Batts who's in charge
• Big hairy secret
• Gum girl: chews your destiny
• Two and only Kelly twins
• Violet Mackerel's natural habitat
• Violet Mackerel's remarkable recovery
• Boys
• Calvin Coconut extra famous
• Danny's doodles
• Ellray Jakes and the beanstalk
• Gone fishing
• Home sweet horror
• Iggy Loomis
• Super Schnoz
• Life of Ty penguin problems
• Notebook of Doom: rise of the balloon goons
• Dragonbreath: the case of the toxic mutants
• Group of indistinguishable friends OR gender not clearly defined OR both genders get equal time
• No-Sneeze Pet
• Campfire crisis
• Jo Schmo shifty business
• Milo and Jazz, case of the locked box
• Sidney and Sydney: Third Grade Mix-Up
• Other: Adults, anthropomorphic adult animals, inanimate objects, etc.
• Mysterious traveler
• Barefoot book of Jewish tales
• Three-Ring Circus 
• Claude in the city
• Arnie the Doughnut

Early Chapters: Other data

• Children with divorced parents
• Calvin Coconut
• Violet Mackerel
• Calvin Waffle (secondary character in Danny's Doodles)
• Children with deceased parents
• My happy life
• Big hairy secret
• Third grade mix-up
• Home sweet horror
• Children of color (has to be main protagonist, not a friend thrown in for the purposes of diversity)
• Calvin Coconut
• Ellray Jakes
• Lulu (2 titles)
• Mysterious Traveler
• Milo and Jazz
• Gum Girl
• Children in poverty or lower middle class (or at least not in suburban middle class or wealthier; this is hard to define)
• Clementine
• Big hairy secret

Genres (other than contemporary, realistic fiction (home/school/friends)

• Fantasy (4 of these are faux superheroes)
• Dragonbreath
• Big hairy secret
• Iggy Loomis
• Shifty business
• Super Schnoz
• Gum girl
• Horror
• Home sweet horror
• Notebook of doom
• Other
• Arnie the doughnut
• Claude in the city
• Mysterious traveler
• Barefoot book of Jewish tales
• Three-ring rascals

Easy Readers: 39 nominations

• Picture Book Tie-Ins:
• Fancy Nancy Apples Galore
• Splat the cat blow snow blow
• Very Fairy Princess teacher's pet
• Tony Baloney school rules
• Seuss-Style Silliness
• Pet named Sneaker
• Squirrels on skis
• 2 Friends (adult - Frog and Toad style)
• Ant and Honey Bee
• Bink and Gollie best friends forever
• Dodsworth in Tokyo
• Inch and Roly and the very small hiding place
• Joe and Sparky go to school
• Monkey and elephant get better
• Mr. Putter and Tabby drop the ball
• Pinch and Dash and the terrible couch
• 2 Friends (children)
• Elephant and Piggie (2 titles)
• Fly Guy and the Frankenfly
• Ling and Ting share a birthday
• Monkey and robot
• Spooky friends
• You can do it
• Graphic Novels
• Elephant and Piggie (2 titles)
• Benjamin Bear in Bright Ideas
• Otto's backwards day
• Patrick eats his peas
• Robot go bot
• Big wet balloon
• Other
• Car goes far
• Dig Scoop Ka-Boom
• Love is in the air
• Me too!
• Missy's super duper royal deluxe class pets
• Murilla Gorilla jungle detective
• Penny and her marble
• Poppy the pirate dog
• Buddy to the rescue
• Squirrel's fun day
• Meanest birthday girl
• Twinky the dinky dog
• Urgency Emergency big bad wolf