The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award

This relatively new 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.

Robert F. Sibert Award winners:

• 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:

• 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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