| Sibert Medal | |
| Awarded For: | "the most distinguished informational book" for children |
| Presenter: | Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association |
| Country: | United States |
| Year: | 2001 |
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. 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.
"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 even nonfiction books). The book must be published originally or simultaneously in the United States and in English.
| Writer | Illustrator | Title | Citation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| < | -- YEAR -->2001[1] | Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado | Winner | ||
| < | -- CITATION -->Honor | ||||
| - | BLIZZARD! The Storm That Changed America | ||||
| My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal | |||||
| Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned | |||||
| < | -- YEAR -->2002[2] | - | Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 | Winner | |
| - | Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps | < | -- CITATION -->Honor | ||
| - | Vincent van Gogh | ||||
| Brooklyn Bridge | |||||
| < | -- YEAR -->2003[3] | - | Winner | ||
| - | Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 | < | -- CITATION -->Honor | ||
| - | Hole in My Life | ||||
| Action Jackson | |||||
| When Marian Sang | |||||
| < | -- YEAR -->2004[4] | - | Winner | ||
| I Face the Wind | Honor | ||||
| < | -- YEAR -->2005[5] | - | Winner | ||
| Walt Whitman: Words for America | < | -- CITATION -->Honor | |||
| Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing | |||||
| < | -- YEAR -->2006[6] | - | Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley | Winner | |
| - | Honor | ||||
| < | -- YEAR -->2007[7] | - | Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon | Winner | |
| - | Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement | < | -- CITATION -->Honor | ||
| Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea | |||||
| To Dance: A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel | |||||
| < | -- YEAR -->2008[8] | Winner | |||
| Lightship | < | -- CITATION -->Honor | |||
| Nic Bishop Spiders | |||||
| < | -- YEAR -->2009[9] | We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball | Winner | ||
| - | Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past | < | -- CITATION -->Honor | ||
| What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy | |||||
| < | --YEAR-->2010[10] | — | Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream | Winner | |
| < | --CITATION-->Honor | ||||
| - | |||||
| < | --YEAR-->2011[11] | Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Bird | Winner | ||
| and Sandra Johnson | Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring | < | --CITATION-->Honor | ||
| - | Lafayette and the American Revolution | ||||
| < | --YEAR-->2012[12] | Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade | Winner | ||
| — | Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene 'Bull' Connor | < | --CITATION-->Honor | ||
| Drawing from Memory | |||||
| and Donna M. Jackson | and Timothy Rodwell (Photographers) | ||||
| Witches | The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem | ||||
| < | --YEAR-->2013[13] | — | Winner | ||
| Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin | < | --CITATION-->Honor | |||
| - | Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with Great Survivor B95 | ||||
| — | Titanic: Voices from the Disaster | ||||
| < | --YEAR-->2014[14] | Parrots over Puerto Rico | Winner | ||
| < | --CITATION-->Honor | ||||
| Look Up | Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard | ||||
| Locomotive | |||||
| - | |||||
| < | --YEAR-->2015[15] | Winner | |||
| - | < | --CITATION-->Honor | |||
| Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker | |||||
| Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands | |||||
| Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation | |||||
| - | Brown Girl Dreaming | ||||
| < | --YEAR-->2016[16] | Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras | Winner | ||
| Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans | < | --CITATION-->Honor | |||
| - | |||||
| Lynda Blackmon Lowery, as told to Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley | Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March | ||||
| < | --YEAR-->2017[17] | and | March: Book Three | Winner | |
| Giant Squid | < | --CITATION-->Honor | |||
| - | Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story | ||||
| - | |||||
| - | We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler | ||||
| < | --YEAR-->2018[18] | - | Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 | Winner | |
| and | Man One | Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix | < | --CITATION-->Honor | |
| Grand Canyon | |||||
| Not So Different: What You Really Want to Ask about Having a Disability | |||||
| - | Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem | ||||
| < | --YEAR-->2019[19] | - | Winner | ||
| - | Camp Panda: Helping Cubs Return to the Wild | < | --CITATION-->Honor | ||
| - | Spooked | How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America | |||
| We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga | |||||
| When Angels Sing: The Story of Rock Legend Carlos Santana | |||||
| < | --Year-->2020[20] | Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story | Winner | ||
| All in a Drop: How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World | < | --CITATION-->Honor | |||
| and | - | This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality | |||
| - | Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir | ||||
| Hey, Water | |||||
| < | --Year-->2021[21] | Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera | Winner | ||
| How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure | < | --CITATION-->Honor | |||
| Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks | |||||
| - | All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team | ||||
| < | -- Year -->2022[22] | The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice With Art | Winner | ||
| The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London’s Poop Pollution Problem | Honor | ||||
| - | Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown | Honor | |||
| We Are Still Here | Native American Truths Everyone Should Know | Honor | |||
| Summertime Sleepers: Animals That Estivate | Honor | ||||
| Honor | |||||
| < | --Year-->2023[23] | Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration | Winner | ||
| Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement | Honor | ||||
| Honor | |||||
| Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott | Honor | ||||
| Honor | |||||
| < | --Year-->2024[24] | Winner | |||
| Honor | |||||
| Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes | Honor | ||||
| Jumper: A Day in the Life of the Backyard Jumping Spider | Honor | ||||
| - | Shipwrecked | Diving for Hidden Time Capsules on the Ocean Floor | Honor |