Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award
What is the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award?
The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal is awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book for children published in the United States 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. The award is presented every January.
Sibert Award winners
The Mona Lisa Vanishes: a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity by Call Number: ebook2024 winner
Seen and Unseen : What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Call Number: D769.8.A6 P365 20222023 winner
The People's Painter : How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art by 2022 winner
Fry Bread : A Native American Family Story by 2020 winner
The Girl Who Drew Butterflies : How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science by Call Number: QL31.M53 S53 20182019 winner
Parrots over Puerto Rico by 2014 winner
Bomb : the race to build--and steal--the world's most dangerous weapon by 2013 winner
Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade by 2012 winner
Kakapo Rescue : Saving the World's Strangest Parrot by 2011 winner
Almost Astronauts : 13 women who dared to dream by 2010 winner
Team Moon : How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by 2007 winner
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine : Solving The Mysteries Of The H. L. Hunley by 2006 winner
The Voice That Challenged a Nation : Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights by 2005 winner
An American Plague : the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 by Call Number: RA644.Y4 M875 20032004 winner
The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler by 2003 winner
Black Potatoes : the story of the great Irish famine, 1845-1850 by 2002 winner
Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for el Dorado by 2001 winner
