Sibert Medal
most distinguished informational book
The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 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.
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2020
2019
- The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science (Winner)
- Camp Panda: Helping Cubs Return to the Wild (Honor)
- Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America (Honor)
- The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees (Honor)
- We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga (Honor)
- When Angels Sing: The Story of Rock Legend Carlos Santana (Honor)
2018
2017
2016
- Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras, (Winner)
- Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Honor)
- The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club (Honor)
- Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March (Honor)
- Voice of freedom : Fannie Lou Hamer, spirit of the civil rights movement (Honor)
2015
- The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus (Winner)
- Brown Girl Dreaming (Honor)
- Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (Honor)
- Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands (Honor)
- Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation (Honor)
- The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, & the Fall of Imperial Russia (Honor)
2014
- Parrots over Puerto Rico (Winner)
- A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin (Honor)
- Locomotive (Honor)
- Look Up! Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard (Honor)
- The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius (Honor)
2012
- 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 (Honor)
- Drawing from Memory (Honor)
- The Elephant Scientist (Honor)
- Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem (Honor)
2011
- Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot (Winner)
- Ballet for Martha (Honor)
- Lafayette and the American Revolution (Honor)