| Sibert Medal | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | "the most distinguished informational book" for children |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association |
| First award | 2001 |
| Website | ala |
The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal established by the Association for Library Service to Children in 2001 with support from Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc., is awarded annually to the writer and illustrator of the most distinguished informational book published in English during the preceding year. [1] [2] The award is named in honor of Robert F. Sibert, a long-time president of Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc. in Jacksonville, Illinois. ALSC administers the award. [2]
"Informational books are defined as those written and illustrated to present, organize, and interpret documentable, factual material." Poetry and traditional literature such as folktales are not eligible but there is no other restriction, such as reference books or nonfiction books. The book must be published originally or simultaneously in the United States and in English. [3]
| Year | Writer | Illustrator | Title | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 [5] | Marc Aronson | Marc Aronson | Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado | Winner |
| Joan Dash | Dušan Petričić | The Longitude Prize | Honor | |
| Jim Murphy | — | BLIZZARD! The Storm That Changed America | ||
| Sophie Webb | Sophie Webb | My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal | ||
| Judd Winick | Judd Winick | Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned | ||
| 2002 [6] | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | — | Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 | Winner |
| Andrea Warren | — | Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps | Honor | |
| Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan | — | Vincent van Gogh | ||
| Lynn Curlee | Lynn Curlee | Brooklyn Bridge | ||
| 2003 [7] | James Cross Giblin | — | The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler | Winner |
| Karen Blumenthal | — | Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 | Honor | |
| Jack Gantos | — | Hole in My Life | ||
| Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan | Robert Andrew Parker | Action Jackson | ||
| Pam Muñoz Ryan | Brian Selznick | When Marian Sang | ||
| 2004 [8] | Jim Murphy | — | An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 | Winner |
| Vicki Cobb | Julia Gorton | I Face the Wind | Honor | |
| 2005 [9] | Russell Freedman | — | The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights | Winner |
| Barbara Kerley | Brian Selznick | Walt Whitman: Words for America | Honor | |
| Sy Montgomery | Nic Bishop | The Tarantula Scientist | ||
| James Rumford | James Rumford | Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing | ||
| 2006 [10] | Sally M. Walker | — | Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley | Winner |
| Susan Campbell Bartoletti | — | Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow | Honor | |
| 2007 [11] | Catherine Thimmesh | — | Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon | Winner |
| Ann Bausum | — | Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement | Honor | |
| Sy Montgomery | Nic Bishop | Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea | ||
| Siena Cherson Siegel | Mark Siegel | To Dance: A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel | ||
| 2008 [12] | Peter Sís | Peter Sís | The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain | Winner |
| Brian Floca | Brian Floca | Lightship | Honor | |
| Nic Bishop | Nic Bishop | Nic Bishop Spiders | ||
| 2009 [13] | Kadir Nelson | Kadir Nelson | We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball | Winner |
| James M. Deem | — | Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past | Honor | |
| Barbara Kerley | Edwin Fotheringham | What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! | ||
| 2010 [14] | Tanya Lee Stone | — | Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream | Winner |
| Chris Barton | Tony Persiani | The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand New Colors | Honor | |
| Brian Floca | Brian Floca | Moonshot: The Flight Of Apollo 11 | ||
| Phillip Hoose | — | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | ||
| 2011 [15] | Sy Montgomery | Nic Bishop | Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Bird | Winner |
| Jan Greenberg and Sandra Johnson | Brian Floca | Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring | Honor | |
| Russell Freedman | — | Lafayette and the American Revolution | ||
| 2012 [16] | Melissa Sweet | Melissa Sweet | Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade | Winner |
| Larry Dane Brimner | — | Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene 'Bull' Connor | Honor | |
| Allen Say | Allen Say | Drawing from Memory | ||
| Caitlin O'Connell and Donna M. Jackson | Caitlin O'Connell and Timothy Rodwell (Photographers) | The Elephant Scientist | ||
| Rosalyn Schanzer | Rosalyn Schanzer | Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem | ||
| 2013 [17] | Steve Sheinkin | — | Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon | Winner |
| Robert Byrd | Robert Byrd | Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin | Honor | |
| Phillip Hoose | — | Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with Great Survivor B95 | ||
| Deborah Hopkinson | — | Titanic: Voices from the Disaster | ||
| 2014 [18] | Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore | Susan L. Roth | Parrots over Puerto Rico | Winner |
| Jen Bryant | Melissa Sweet | A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin | Honor | |
| Annette LeBlanc Cate | Annette LeBlanc Cate | Look Up! Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard | ||
| Brian Floca | Brian Floca | Locomotive | ||
| Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan | — | The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius | ||
| 2015 [19] | Jen Bryant | Melissa Sweet | The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus | Winner |
| Candace Fleming | — | The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion & the Fall of Imperial Russia | Honor | |
| Patricia Hruby Powell | Christian Robinson | Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker | ||
| Katherine Roy | Katherine Roy | Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands | ||
| Duncan Tonatiuh | Duncan Tonatiuh | Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation | ||
| Jacqueline Woodson | — | Brown Girl Dreaming | ||
| 2016 [20] | Duncan Tonatiuh | Duncan Tonatiuh | Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras | Winner |
| Don Brown | Don Brown | Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans | Honor | |
| Phillip Hoose | — | The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club | ||
| Lynda Blackmon Lowery, as told to Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley | PJ Loughran | Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March | ||
| Carole Boston Weatherford | Ekua Holmes | Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement | ||
| 2017 [21] | John Lewis and Andrew Aydin | Nate Powell | March: Book Three | Winner |
| Candace Fleming | Eric Rohmann | Giant Squid | Honor | |
| Caren Stelson | — | Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story | ||
| Albert Marrin | — | The Japanese American Experience During World War II | ||
| Russell Freedman | — | We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler | ||
| 2018 [22] | Larry Dane Brimner | — | Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 | Winner |
| Jacqueline Briggs Martin and June Jo Lee | Man One | Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix | Honor | |
| Jason Chin | Jason Chin | Grand Canyon | ||
| Shane Burcaw | Matt Carr | Not So Different: What You Really Want to Ask about Having a Disability | ||
| Patricia Newman | — | Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem | ||
| 2019 [23] | Joyce Sidman | — | The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science | Winner |
| Catherine Thimmesh | — | Camp Panda: Helping Cubs Return to the Wild | Honor | |
| Gail Jarrow | — | Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America | ||
| Don Brown | Don Brown | The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees | ||
| Traci Sorell | Frané Lessac | We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga | ||
| Michael Mahin | Jose Ramirez | When Angels Sing: The Story of Rock Legend Carlos Santana | ||
| 2020 [24] | Kevin Noble Maillard | Juana Martinez-Neal | Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story | Winner |
| Lori Alexander | Vivien Mildenberger | All in a Drop: How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World | Honor | |
| Jo Ann Alice Boyce and Debbie Levy | — | This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality | ||
| Nikki Grimes | — | Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir | ||
| Antoinette Portis | Antoinette Portis | Hey, Water! | ||
| 2021 [25] | Candace Fleming | Eric Rohmann | Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera | Winner |
| John Rocco | John Rocco | How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure | Honor | |
| Suzanne Slade | Cozbi A. Cabrera | Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks | ||
| Christina Soontornvat | — | All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team | ||
| 2022 [26] | Cynthia Levinson | Evan Turk | The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice With Art | Winner |
| Colleen Paeff | Nancy Carpenter | The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London’s Poop Pollution Problem | Honor | |
| Steve Sheinkin | — | Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown | Honor | |
| Traci Sorell | Frané Lessac | We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know | Honor | |
| Melissa Stewart | Sarah S. Brannen | Summertime Sleepers: Animals That Estivate | Honor | |
| Carole Boston Weatherford | Floyd Cooper | Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre | Honor | |
| 2023 [27] | Elizabeth Partridge | Lauren Tamaki | Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration | Winner |
| Angela Joy | Janelle Washington | Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement | Honor | |
| Antoinette Portis | Antoinette Portis | A Seed Grows | Honor | |
| Mara Rockliff | R. Gregory Christie | Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott | Honor | |
| Chana Stiefel | Susan Gal | The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs | Honor | |
| 2024 [28] | Nicholas Day | Brett Helquist | The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity | Winner |
| Sy Montgomery | Matt Patterson | The Book of Turtles | Honor | |
| Traci N. Todd | Shannon Wright | Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes | Honor | |
| Jessica Lanan | Jessica Lanan | Jumper: A Day in the Life of the Backyard Jumping Spider | Honor | |
| Martin W. Sandler | — | Shipwrecked!: Diving for Hidden Time Capsules on the Ocean Floor | Honor |
