Sibert Medal facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Sibert Medal |
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| Presented by | Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association |
| Country | United States |
| First awarded | 2001 |
The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal is a special award given each year to the best non-fiction book for children. It's like an Oscar for books that teach you amazing facts! The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), which is part of the American Library Association, started this award in 2001.
The medal is named after Robert F. Sibert, who loved books and helped make sure libraries had lots of them. He was the president of a company called Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc. This award celebrates books that are "informational," meaning they are full of true facts and help you learn about the world.
What kind of books can win? Informational books are those that explain, organize, and share real, proven facts. This means books about history, science, biographies, and more! However, books of poetry or traditional stories like folktales are not eligible. To be considered, a book must be published in the United States and written in English.
Sibert Medal Winners: Books That Teach and Inspire
The Robert F. Sibert Medal honors authors and illustrators who create outstanding informational books. These books help young readers explore new topics and understand the world around them. Below is a list of the amazing books that have won the Sibert Medal, along with those that received an "Honor" award, meaning they were also highly praised.
| Year | Writer | Illustrator | Title | Award |
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| 2001 | 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 | My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal | |||
| Judd Winick | Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned | |||
| 2002 | 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 | Brooklyn Bridge | |||
| 2003 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing | |||
| 2006 | 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 | 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 | Peter Sís | Peter Sís | The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain | Winner |
| Brian Floca | Lightship | Honor | ||
| Nic Bishop | Nic Bishop | Nic Bishop Spiders | ||
| 2009 | 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 | 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 | Moonshot: The Flight Of Apollo 11 | |||
| Phillip Hoose | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | |||
| 2011 | Sy Montgomery | Nic Bishop | Kakapo: 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Duncan Tonatiuh | Duncan Tonatiuh | 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 | 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 | Larry Dane Brimner | — | Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 | Winner |
| Jacqueline Briggs Martin and June Jo Lee | 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 | 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 | 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 Allen 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 | 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 |
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