The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award

The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award

This award is given annually "to the author of the most distinguished informational book published during the preceding year." There is an award winner and honor books.

Links to book titles go to the book's page on Amazon; other links in the listings or below them go to other resources.

Robert F. Sibert Award winners:

2012 winner: Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade, by Melissa Sweet
2011 winner: Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot, by Sy Montgomery, illustrated by Nic Bishop
2010 winner: Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream, by Tanya Lee Stone
2009 winner: We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, by Kadir Nelson
2008 winner: The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sís. Sibert Chair Caroline Parr: “Sís combines the personal and the political in a feat of visual and verbal storytelling." Also a Caldecott Honor book.
2007 winner: Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh
2006 winner: Secrets of a Civil War Submarine, by Sally M. Walker
2005 winner: The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson... by Russell Freedman
2004 winner: An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy
2003 winner: The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler, by James Cross Giblin
2002 winner: Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Robert F. Sibert Honor books:

2012 Honor books:
- Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor, by Larry Dane Brimner
- Drawing from Memory, written and illustrated by Allen Say
- The Elephant Scientist, written by Caitlin O’Connell and Donna M. Jackson, photographs by Caitlin O’Connell and Timothy Rodwell
- Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem, written and illustrated by Rosalyn Schanzer
2011 Honor books:
- Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring, by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, illustrated by Brian Floca
- Lafayette and the American Revolution, by Russell Freedman
2010 Honor books:
- The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors, written by Chris Barton, illustrated by Tony Persiani
- Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, written and illustrated by Brian Floca.
- Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, written by Phillip Hoose (also a Newbery Honor book).
2009 Honor books:
- Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past, by James M. Deem
- What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!, written by Barbara Kerley and illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham
2008 Honor books:
- Lightship, written and illustrated by Brian Floca
- Nic Bishop Spiders, written and photographed by Nic Bishop
2007 Honor books:
- Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement, by Ann Bausum
- Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea, by Sy Montgomery, photographs by Nic Bishop
- To Dance: A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel. by Siena Cherson Siegel, illustrated by Mark Siegel
2006 Honor book:
- Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
2005 Honor books:
- Walt Whitman: Words for America by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Brian Selznick
- The Tarantula Scientist by Sy Montgomery, photographs by Nic Bishop
- Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing by James Rumford
2004 Honor book:
- I Face the Wind by Vicki Cobb, illustrated by Julia Gorton
2002 Honor books:
- Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps, by Andrea Warren
- Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist, by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
- Brooklyn Bridge, by Lynn Curlee

More information about the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award: this link leads to the official site for the Award, which includes a complete list of past winners.

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