Sibert Medal
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The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 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 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. ALSC administers the award.
Association for Library Service to Children
The Association for Library Service to Children is a division of the American Library Association. Its members are concerned with the profession of children's Librarianship...
in 2001 with support from Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc., 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. ALSC administers the award.
Recipients
| Year | Author | Illustrator | Title | Citation |
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| 2011 | Sy Montgomery | Nic Bishop | Kakapo: Saving the World's Strangest Bird | Winner |
| 2011 | Jan Greenberg and Sandra Johnson | Brian Floca Brian Floca Brian Floca is an American author and illustrator of children's books. He is best known for illustrating books by the award-winning children’s author Avi and for nonfiction picture books.- Biography :Brian was born and raised in Temple, Texas... |
Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring | Honor |
| 2011 | Russell Freedman Russell Freedman Russell Freedman is a biographer and author of nearly 50 books for young people. He is most notable for receiving the 1988 Newbery Medal with his work Lincoln: A Photobiography. In 1998, he received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for his lifelong contribution to children's literature. He currently... |
Lafayette and the American Revolution | Honor | |
| 2010 | Tanya Lee Stone | Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream | Winner | |
| 2010 | Chris Barton | Tony Persiani | The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand New Colors | Honor |
| 2010 | Brian Floca Brian Floca Brian Floca is an American author and illustrator of children's books. He is best known for illustrating books by the award-winning children’s author Avi and for nonfiction picture books.- Biography :Brian was born and raised in Temple, Texas... |
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 | Honor | |
| 2010 | Phillip Hoose | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | Honor | |
| 2009 | We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball | Winner | ||
| 2009 | na | Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past | Honor | |
| 2009 | What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! | Honor | ||
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| 2008 | Lightship | Honor | ||
| 2008 | Nic Bishop Spiders | Honor | ||
| 2007 | na | Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon | Winner | |
| 2007 | na | Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement | Honor | |
| 2007 | Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea | Honor | ||
| 2007 | To Dance: A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel | Honor | ||
| 2006 | na | Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley | Winner | |
| 2006 | na | Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow is a non-fiction children's book written by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, and published in 2005. It received the Newbery Honor medal in 2006.... |
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| 2005 | Walt Whitman: Words for America | Honor | ||
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| 2005 | Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing | Honor | ||
| 2004 | na | Winner | ||
| 2004 | I Face the Wind | Honor | ||
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| 2003 | na | Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 | Honor | |
| 2003 | Hole in My Life | Honor | ||
| 2003 | Action Jackson | Honor | ||
| 2003 | When Marian Sang | Honor | ||
| 2002 | Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 | Winner | ||
| 2002 | Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps | Honor | ||
| 2002 | na | Vincent van Gogh | Honor | |
| 2002 | Brooklyn Bridge | Honor | ||
| 2001 | Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado | Winner | ||
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| 2001 | Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America | Honor | ||
| 2001 | My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal | Honor | ||
| 2001 | Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned Pedro and Me Pedro and Me is an autobiographical graphic novel by Judd Winick regarding his friendship with AIDS educator Pedro Zamora after the two met while on the reality television series, The Real World: San Francisco... |
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