Sibert Medal
Clash Royale CLAN TAG#URR8PPP | 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 awarded | 2001 |
| Website | ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/sibertmedal |
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, the long-time President of Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc. of 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 even nonfiction books). The book must be published originally or simultaneously in the United States and in English.[3]
Recipients
| Year | Writer | Illustrator | Title | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Larry Dane Brimner | — | Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 | Winner |
| 2018 | Jacqueline Briggs Martin and June Jo Lee | Man One | Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix | Honor |
| 2018 | Jason Chin | Jason Chin | Grand Canyon | Honor |
| 2018 | Shane Burcaw | Matt Carr | Not So Different: What You Really Want to Ask about Having a Disability | Honor |
| 2018 | Patricia Newman | — | Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem | Honor |
| 2017 | John Lewis and Andrew Aydin | Nate Powell | March: Book Three | Winner |
| 2017 | Candace Fleming | Eric Rohmann | Giant Squid | Honor |
| 2017 | Caren Stelson | — | Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story | Honor |
| 2017 | Albert Marrin | — | The Japanese American Experience During World War II | Honor |
| 2017 | Russell Freedman | — | We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler | Honor |
| 2016 | Duncan Tonatiuh | Duncan Tonatiuh | Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras | Winner |
| 2016 | Don Brown | Don Brown | Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans | Honor |
| 2016 | Phillip Hoose | — | The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club | Honor |
| 2016 | 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 | Honor |
| 2016 | Carole Boston Weatherford | Ekua Holmes | Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement | Honor |
| 2015 | Jen Bryant | Melissa Sweet | The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus | Winner |
| 2015 | Candace Fleming | — | The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion & the Fall of Imperial Russia | Honor |
| 2015 | Patricia Hruby Powell | Christian Robinson | Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker | Honor |
| 2015 | Katherine Roy | Katherine Roy | Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands | Honor |
| 2015 | Duncan Tonatiuh | Duncan Tonatiuh | Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation | Honor |
| 2015 | Jacqueline Woodson | — | Brown Girl Dreaming | Honor |
| 2014 | Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore | Susan L. Roth | Parrots over Puerto Rico | Winner |
| 2014 | Jen Bryant | Melissa Sweet | A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin | Honor |
| 2014 | Annette LeBlanc Cate | Annette LeBlanc Cate | Look Up! Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard | Honor |
| 2014 | Brian Floca | Brian Floca | Locomotive | Honor |
| 2014 | Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan | — | The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius | Honor |
| 2013 | Steve Sheinkin | — | Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon | Winner |
| 2013 | Robert Byrd | Robert Byrd | Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin | Honor |
| 2013 | Phillip Hoose | — | Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with Great Survivor B95 | Honor |
| 2013 | Deborah Hopkinson | — | Titanic: Voices from the Disaster | Honor |
| 2012 | Melissa Sweet | — | Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade | Winner |
| 2012 | Larry Dane Brimner | — | Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene 'Bull' Connor | Honor |
| 2012 | Allen Say | Allen Say | Drawing from Memory | Honor |
| 2012 | Caitlin O'Connell and Donna M. Jackson | Caitlin O'Connell and Timothy Rodwell (Photographers) | The Elephant Scientist | Honor |
| 2012 | Rosalyn Schanzer | Rosalyn Schanzer | Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem | Honor |
| 2011 | Sy Montgomery | Nic Bishop | Kakapo: Saving the World's Strangest Bird | Winner |
| 2011 | Jan Greenberg and Sandra Johnson | Brian Floca | Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring | Honor |
| 2011 | Russell Freedman | — | 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 | Moonshot: The Flight Of Apollo 11 | Honor |
| 2010 | Phillip Hoose | — | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | Honor |
| 2009 | Kadir Nelson | Kadir Nelson | We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball | Winner |
| 2009 | James M. Deem | — | Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past | Honor |
| 2009 | Barbara Kerley | Edwin Fotheringham | What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! | Honor |
| 2008 | Peter Sís | Peter Sís | The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain | Winner |
| 2008 | Brian Floca | Brian Floca | Lightship | Honor |
| 2008 | Nic Bishop | Nic Bishop | Nic Bishop Spiders | Honor |
| 2007 | Catherine Thimmesh | — | Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon | Winner |
| 2007 | Ann Bausum | — | Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement | Honor |
| 2007 | Sy Montgomery | Nic Bishop | Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea | Honor |
| 2007 | Siena Cherson Siegel | Mark Siegel | To Dance: A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel | Honor |
| 2006 | Sally M. Walker | — | Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley | Winner |
| 2006 | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | — | Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow | Honor |
| 2005 | Russell Freedman | — | The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights | Winner |
| 2005 | Barbara Kerley | Brian Selznick | Walt Whitman: Words for America | Honor |
| 2005 | Sy Montgomery | Nic Bishop | The Tarantula Scientist | Honor |
| 2005 | James Rumford | James Rumford | Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing | Honor |
| 2004 | Jim Murphy | — | An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 | Winner |
| 2004 | Vicki Cobb | Julia Gorton | I Face the Wind | Honor |
| 2003 | James Cross Giblin | — | The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler | Winner |
| 2003 | Karen Blumenthal | — | Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 | Honor |
| 2003 | Jack Gantos | — | Hole in My Life | Honor |
| 2003 | Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan | Robert Andrew Parker | Action Jackson | Honor |
| 2003 | Pam Munoz Ryan | Brian Selznick | When Marian Sang | Honor |
| 2002 | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | — | Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 | Winner |
| 2002 | Andrea Warren | — | Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps | Honor |
| 2002 | Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan | — | Vincent van Gogh | Honor |
| 2002 | Lynn Curlee | Lynn Curlee | Brooklyn Bridge | Honor |
| 2001 | Marc Aronson | Marc Aronson | Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado | Winner |
| 2001 | Joan Dash | Dušan Petričić | The Longitude Prize | Honor |
| 2001 | Jim Murphy | — | BLIZZARD! The Storm That Changed America | Honor |
| 2001 | Sophie Webb | Sophie Webb | My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal | Honor |
| 2001 | Judd Winick | Judd Winick | Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned | Honor |
See also
References
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"Welcome to the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal home page!". Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). American Library Association (ALA). Retrieved 2013-05-05.
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"About the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal". ALSC. ALA. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
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"Terms and criteria: (Robert F.) Sibert Informational Book Award". ALSC. ALA. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
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"Robert F. Sibert Medal and Honor Books, 2001–present". ALSC. ALA. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
