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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal

Robert F. Sibert medalThe Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, established by the Association for Library Service to Children in 2001, is awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in English during the preceding year. The award is named in honor of Robert F. Sibert, the long-time President of Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc. of Jacksonville, Illinois.

2012 Winner - Balloons Over Broadway: the True Story of the Puppeteer of the Macy's Parade by Melissa Sweet

2012 Honor Books:
 Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor by Larry Dane Brimnerand
 The Elephant Scientist by Caitlin O’Connell and Donna M. Jackson
Drawing from Memory by Allen Say
Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem by Rosalyn Schanzer

2011 Winner - Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot by Sy Montgomery; photographs by Nic Bishop

2011 Honor Books:
 Lafayette and the American Revolution by Russell Freedman
 Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan; illustrated by Brian Floca

2010 Winner - Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone

2010 Honor Books:
 Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
 The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors by Chris Barton; illustrated by Tony Persiani

2009 Winner - We Are the Ship: the Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson

2009 Honor Books:
 Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and Rediscovery of the Past by James M. Deem
 What to Do About Alice? by Barbara Kerley; illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham


2008 Winner - The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis

2008 Honor Books:
 Lightship by Brian Floca
 Spiders by Nic Bishop

2007 Winner - Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thinmesh

2007 Honor Books:
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement by Ann Bausum
 Quest for the Tree Kangaroo by Sy Montgomery; photographs by Nic Bishop
 To Dance: a Ballerina's Graphic Novel by Siene Cherson Siegel; artwork by Mark Siegel

 

2006 Winner - Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley by Sally M. Walker

2006 Honor Books:
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti 2005

2005 Winner - The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman

2005 Honor Books:
Walt Whitman: Words for America  by Barbara Kerley; illustrated by Brian Selznick 
The Tarantula Scientist by Sy Montgomery; photographs by Nic Bishop
Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing by James Rumford; translated into Cherokee by Anna Sixkiller Huckaby

2004 Winner -  An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy

2004 Honor Book:
I Face the Wind  written by Vicki Cobb, illustrated by Julia Gorton 

2003 Winner -  The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler by James Cross Giblin

2003 Honor Books:
Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 by Karen Blumenthal
Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan; illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker
When Marian Sang by Pam Munoz Ryan; illustrated by Brian Selznick

 

2002 Winner -  Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

2002 Honor Books:
Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren
Vincent van Gogh by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
Brooklyn Bridge by Lynn Curlee

 

2001 Medal Winner - Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado by Marc Aronson

2001Honor Books:
The Longitude Prize by Joan Dash; illustrated by Dusan Petricic
Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America by Jim Murphy
My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal by Sophie Webb
Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned by Judd Winick


Updated: January 23, 2012.

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