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, a long-time president of Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc. in 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 nonfiction books. The book must be published originally or simultaneously in the United States and in English.

Recipients

+ Robert F. Sibert Medal and Honor Books, 2001–presentYearWriterIllustratorTitleResult2001 Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El DoradoWinnerHonor — BLIZZARD! The Storm That Changed AmericaMy Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned2002 — Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850Winner — Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death CampsHonor — Vincent van Gogh Brooklyn Bridge2003 — Winner — Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929Honor — Hole in My LifeAction JacksonWhen Marian Sang2004 — WinnerI Face the WindHonor2005 — WinnerWalt Whitman: Words for AmericaHonor Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing2006 — Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. HunleyWinner — Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's ShadowHonor2007 — Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the MoonWinner — Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights MovementHonorQuest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea To Dance: A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel2008Winner LightshipHonorNic Bishop Spiders2009 We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League BaseballWinner — Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the PastHonor What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!2010 —Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to DreamWinnerHonorMoonshot: The Flight Of Apollo 11 — Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice2011Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest BirdWinner and Sandra JohnsonBallet for Martha: Making Appalachian SpringHonor — Lafayette and the American Revolution2012 Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's ParadeWinner —Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene 'Bull' ConnorHonor Drawing from Memory and Donna M. Jackson and Timothy Rodwell (Photographers)Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem2013 —Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous WeaponWinnerElectric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin FranklinHonor — Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with Great Survivor B95 —Titanic: Voices from the Disaster2014Parrots over Puerto RicoWinnerHonorLook Up! Bird-Watching in Your Own BackyardLocomotive —2015Winner —HonorJosephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine BakerNeighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon IslandsSeparate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation —Brown Girl Dreaming2016Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead CalaverasWinnerDrowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New OrleansHonor —Lynda Blackmon Lowery, as told to Elspeth Leacock and Susan BuckleyTurning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights MarchVoice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement2017 and March: Book Three WinnerGiant SquidHonor —Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story— —We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler2018 —Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 Winner and Man OneChef Roy Choi and the Street Food RemixHonorGrand CanyonNot So Different: What You Really Want to Ask about Having a Disability —Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem2019 —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 We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga When Angels Sing: The Story of Rock Legend Carlos Santana 2020Fry Bread: A Native American Family StoryWinnerAll in a Drop: How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible WorldHonor and —This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality—Ordinary Hazards: A MemoirHey, Water!2021Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis MelliferaWinnerHow We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest AdventureHonor Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks—All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team2022The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice With ArtWinnerThe Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London’s Poop Pollution ProblemHonor—Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War ShowdownWe Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should KnowSummertime Sleepers: Animals That EstivateUnspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre2023Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American IncarcerationWinnerChoosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights MovementHonorSweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott2024WinnerHonorHolding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie OrmesJumper: A Day in the Life of the Backyard Jumping Spider—Shipwrecked!: Diving for Hidden Time Capsules on the Ocean Floor2025Life after Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale FallWinnerCall Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for LatinosHonor—, Sammy Savos, and Bethany Strout and Donna Janell Bowman Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills2026Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la PapaWinner—At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for FreedomHonorGo Tell It: How James Baldwin Became a WriterSilenced Voices: Reclaiming Memories from the Guatemalan Genocide

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