Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal
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Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
2023 - Honor(s) Accompanied by striking cut-paper illustrations, this moving picture book biography illuminates Mamie Till-Mobley’s life and the ways in which the murder of her son affected... |
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A Seed Grows
2023 - Honor(s) The lifecycle of a sunflower from seed to flower and back to seed is presented in minimalistic, lyrical text accompanied by richly textured images of... |
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Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
2023 - Honor(s) Exceptional writing and rich illustrations shed light on everyday civil rights hero Georgia Gilmore in this thoroughly researched picture book biography. |
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The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs
2023 - Honor(s) Years after the Holocaust, Yaffa Eliach traveled the world to collect photographs from former members of her destroyed shtetl, which were used to create the... |
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Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
2023 - Honor(s) “Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement,” illustrated by Janelle Washington, is the John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator award... |
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Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration
2023 - Winner(s) In an account that masterfully combines text and illustration, the works of three different photographers are used to showcase and examine the unjust incarceration of... |
2023 - Winner(s) |
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The People’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art
2022 - Winner(s) Jewish immigrant Ben Shahn used his art to portray the lives of working-class people and others who had been mistreated to bring to light injustices... |
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The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London’s Poop Pollution Problem
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Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown
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We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know
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Summertime Sleepers: Animals That Estivate
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Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
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Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera
2021 - Winner(s) |
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All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team
2021 - Honor(s) |
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How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure
2021 - Honor(s) |
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Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
2021 - Honor(s) |
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Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
2020 - Winner(s) |
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This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality
2020 - Honor(s) |
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Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir
2020 - Honor(s) |
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Hey, Water!
2020 - Honor(s) |
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All in a Drop: How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World
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Camp Panda: Helping Cubs Return to the Wild
2019 - Honor(s) |
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Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America
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The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees
2019 - Honor(s) |
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We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
2019 - Honor(s) |
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When Angels Sing: The Story of Rock Legend Carlos Santana
2019 - Honor(s) |
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The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science
2019 - Winner(s) |
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Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961
2018 - Winner(s) “Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961” is published by Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights. In 1961 on the seventh anniversary of the Brown... |
2018 - Winner(s) | |
Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix
2018 - Honor(s) Part biography, part culinary adventure, this vibrant and energetic book captures the essence of the LA street food scene. Graffiti-inspired art and hip-hop flavored text... |
2018 - Honor(s) | |
Grand Canyon
2018 - Honor(s) Through magnificent panoramic illustrations, meticulously researched diagrams and lucid text, Jason Chin has created a book as grand as the canyon itself. Readers join a... |
2018 - Honor(s) | |
Not So Different: What You Really Want to Ask about Having a Disability
2018 - Honor(s) In this candid book, award-winning writer Burcaw answers ten frequently asked questions about his life with a disability in a humorous and approachable manner. Carr’s... |
2018 - Honor(s) | |
Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem
2018 - Honor(s) Chemical runoff from California’s farms kills seagrass. But in Monterey Bay’s Elkhorn Slough, the seagrass is thriving. Why? Readers dive into the waters of the... |
2018 - Honor(s) |
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March: Book Three
2017 - Winner(s) “March: Book Three” published by Top Shelf Productions, is a memoir chronicling Lewis’s lifelong struggle for civil and human rights. Carefully selected dialog and first-person... |
2017 - Winner(s) | |
Giant Squid
2017 - Honor(s) Poetic text and lush oil paintings immerse readers in a suspenseful deep-sea investigation of the elusive giant squid, exploring what is known – and what... |
2017 - Honor(s) | |
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story
2017 - Honor(s) In powerful, spare prose, Stelson recounts the haunting experiences of a young Sachiko and her family in the months and decades following the atomic destruction... |
2017 - Honor(s) | |
Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II
2017 - Honor(s) Marrin fuses impeccable research and polemic brilliance in an examination and well-guided history of the racism and xenophobia that propelled Executive Order 9066, interning over... |
2017 - Honor(s) | |
We Will Not Be Silent
2017 - Honor(s) Freedman offers a tightly-knit narrative on the lives and work of these young people within the larger context of Hitler, Nazism, and the devastating effect... |
2017 - Honor(s) |
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Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras
2016 - Winner(s)
Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calvaras is about José Guadalupe Posada, the Mexican artist whose iconic Dia de Muertos illustrations...
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2016 - Winner(s) | |
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
2016 - Honor(s)
“A swirl of unremarkable wind leaves Africa…” and makes its way to what will become the drowned city of New Orleans. Simple black ink... |
2016 - Honor(s) | |
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
2016 - Honor(s)
Hoose presents the true World War II story of eight Danish teens who became resistance fighters while most of the adults in their country... |
2016 - Honor(s) | |
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
2016 - Honor(s)
“By the time I was fifteen years old, I had been in jail nine times.” So begins Lowery’s highly personal account of the historic... |
2016 - Honor(s) | |
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
2016 - Honor(s)
This inspirational singer and Civil Rights activist comes to life in 22 brief, first person, free verse poems that seamlessly incorporate Hamer’s own words... |
2016 - Honor(s) |
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Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation
2015 - Honor(s) Tonatiuh draws upon traditional Mixtec codex art to tell the story of 11-year-old Sylvia Mendes, who helped end school segregation in California seven years before... |
2015 - Honor(s) | |
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
2015 - Winner(s) Peter Mark Roget, whose boyhood passion for list-making and finding the right word for every situation, led him to create his “treasure house” of a... |
2015 - Winner(s) | |
Brown Girl Dreaming
2015 - Honor(s) Woodson’s eloquent and haunting memoir focuses on her family and her dream of becoming a writer. |
2015 - Honor(s) | |
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion & the Fall of Imperial Russia
2015 - Honor(s) Fleming brilliantly delineates the tragic fall of the Russian royal family, contrasting their opulent lives with the primary source voices from the Rebellion. |
2015 - Honor(s) | |
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker
2015 - Honor(s) Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker is a dynamic dance of beautifully written verse and lively illustrations describing the life of the effervescent entertainer. |
2015 - Honor(s) | |
Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California’s Farallon Islands
2015 - Honor(s) With vivid paintings and clear, accessible text, Roy creates a heart-stopping look at what great white sharks do best—hunt for their next meal. |
2015 - Honor(s) |
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Parrots over Puerto Rico
2014 - Winner(s) “Parrots over Puerto Rico,” is the story of the rescue and return of the Puerto Rican parrot, a species once so abundant it blotted out... |
2014 - Winner(s) | |
A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
2014 - Honor(s) Readers will be inspired by the passion and perseverance of artist Horace Pippin in this engaging picture book biography. The tightly woven narrative coupled with... |
2014 - Honor(s) | |
Locomotive
2014 - Honor(s) CHUG-CHUG! HUFF-HUFF! Brian Floca invites us back in time to experience the excitement and danger of a family’s 1869 transcontinental rail journey. Flowing, detailed blank...
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2014 - Honor(s) | |
Look Up! Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard
2014 - Honor(s) This spirited, accessible introduction to the art and science of birding features immersive, fact-filled cartoon art punctuated with tongue-in-beak bird commentary via word bubbles and... |
2014 - Honor(s) | |
The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius
2014 - Honor(s) Greenberg and Jordan provide a fascinating account of the life and work of the eccentric and inventive ceramic artist, George E. Ohr. The text is... |
2014 - Honor(s) |
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Electric Ben
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Moonbird
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Titanic: Voices from the Disaster
2013 - Honor(s) |
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Bomb: The Race to Build
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Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade
2012 - Winner(s) |
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Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene 'Bull' Connor
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Drawing from Memory
2012 - Honor(s) |
2012 - Honor(s) | |
The Elephant Scientist
2012 - Honor(s) |
2012 - Honor(s) | |
Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem
2012 - Honor(s) |
2012 - Honor(s) |
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Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
2011 - Winner(s) |
2011 - Winner(s) | |
Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring
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Lafayette and the American Revolution
2011 - Honor(s) |
2011 - Honor(s) |
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Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
2010 - Winner(s) Women in space—not a big deal now, but it took over 20 years for NASA to recognize that women have the Right Stuff . “Almost... |
2010 - Winner(s) | |
The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors
2010 - Honor(s) |
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Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
2010 - Honor(s) |
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
2010 - Honor(s) |
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We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
2009 - Winner(s)
Kadir Nelson scores a homerun with this fascinating and well-documented history of Negro League Baseball told in the voice of an "everyman" narrator. Dignified... |
2009 - Winner(s) | |
Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past
2009 - Honor(s) Bodies from the Ice explores the archaeology of glacier science. Deem's visual presentation engages readers through period newspaper illustrations, paintings, maps and photographs of ice... |
2009 - Honor(s) | |
What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Fathe
2009 - Honor(s) Growing up as the daughter of the President was not easy, but being the President and father of Alice Roosevelt was not easy either. Barbara... |
2009 - Honor(s) |
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The Wall: Growing Up behind the Iron Curtain
2008 - Winner(s) In his deeply felt memoir, set in mid-20th century Prague, SÃs contrasts the constrictive walls of the communist state with his personal quest for artistic... |
2008 - Winner(s) | |
Lightship
2008 - Honor(s) In simple, stately prose that perfectly complements his luminous watercolors, Floca introduces the lightship Ambrose, its crew and cat. Masterful use of the historical present... |
2008 - Honor(s) | |
Nic Bishop Spiders
2008 - Honor(s) Even the squeamish will be awed by Bishop's oversized, dramatic and vibrant up-close color photographs of more than a dozen types of spiders. His compelling... |
2008 - Honor(s) |
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Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
2007 - Winner(s) With heart-stopping prose and stunning NASA photographs, Thimmesh celebrates the men and women who solved a series of unfolding crises that threatened the mission of Apollo... |
2007 - Winner(s) | |
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
2007 - Honor(s) The 1961 Freedom Rides come to life in Bausum's book through the unflinching personal stories of two men uniting for a common cause: Lewis, the... |
2007 - Honor(s) | |
Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea
2007 - Honor(s) Biologist Lisa Dabek and her multinational team search for the beautiful, elusive Matschie's tree kangaroo in the cloud forests of Papua New Guinea. Dramatic color... |
2007 - Honor(s) | |
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel
2007 - Honor(s) Siegel's literary debut dramatizes the struggle and fulfillment of becoming a professional ballerina--lifting the curtain on a dream shared by many young dancers. Partnered by... |
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Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley
2006 - Winner(s) In 1864, the H.L. Hunley became the first submarine to sink an enemy ship. It then vanished. For 131 years, the Hunley's fate remained a... |
2006 - Winner(s) | |
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
2006 - Honor(s) Readers will be riveted by the chilling history meticulously documented in Bartoletti's book. By weaving the personal stories of 12 young Germans into the larger... |
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The Tarantula Scientist
2005 - Honor(s) Montgomery's vigorous and sometimes humorous text, enlivened by Bishop's color close-up photography, introduces field scientist Sam Marshall and his hairy subjects. This team effort is... |
2005 - Honor(s) | |
Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing
2005 - Honor(s) With spare, poetic writing and richly colored, expressive illustrations, Rumford captures the character of Sequoyah, the man who created a writing system for the Cherokee... |
2005 - Honor(s) | |
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
2005 - Winner(s) Freedman gracefully narrates the story of Anderson's life and career. Appropriately, it is her remarkable voice that the author emphasizes in this handsomely and spaciously... |
2005 - Winner(s) | |
Walt Whitman: Words for America
2005 - Honor(s) Kerley's lyrical prose portrait of Whitman captures the remarkable humanity and compassion of this quintessentially American poet, while Selznick's evocative art, inspired by period photographs... |
2005 - Honor(s) |
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An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
2004 - Winner(s) Murphy draws material from primary sources, such as private diaries, newspapers and books, to give insight into political, social and cultural challenges of the yellow... |
2004 - Winner(s) | |
I Face the Wind
2004 - Honor(s) A Vicki Cobb Science Play book, I Face the Wind, asks its young readers to think like scientists, as it leads them through experiments and... |
2004 - Honor(s) |
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The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler
2003 - Winner(s) Gibson poses and answers three questions in this compelling, accessible account of Hitler, his world and his legacy. "What sort of man could plan and... |
2003 - Winner(s) | |
Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929
2003 - Honor(s) Blumenthal's juvenile book debut is a grippingly written account of the chaotic events preceding the 1929 stock market crash. Using numerous primary sources, the text... |
2003 - Honor(s) | |
Hole in My Life
2003 - Honor(s) Gantos courageously recounts his turbulent youth and young adulthood in this powerful and heart-wrenching memoir. He weaves literary quotes and allusions in superb text to... |
2003 - Honor(s) | |
Action Jackson
2003 - Honor(s) Greenberg and Jordan capture Jackson Pollock's spirit and artistic style through succinct narrative and purposeful words. Detailed source notes enrich this informational picture book, which... |
2003 - Honor(s) | |
When Marian Sang
2003 - Honor(s) A gloriously designed and thoughtfully researched book encapsulates the life of famed African-American contralto Marian Anderson. Ryan's vibrant text melds perfectly with Selznick's sepia toned... |
2003 - Honor(s) |
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Brooklyn Bridge
2002 - Honor(s) Elegant paintings, facinating diagrams and compelling prose convey the tortuous creation of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge. Explaining both the drama and the engineering... |
2002 - Honor(s) | |
Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
2002 - Winner(s) "Using first-hand accounts, illustrations and documents from archival sources, Bartoletti recreates the milieu of a century and a half ago, and links the lives of... |
2002 - Winner(s) | |
Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
2002 - Honor(s) Surviving Hitler is the powerful story of Jack Mandelbaum, who as a teenager was torn from life of warmth and family love, to spend three... |
2002 - Honor(s) | |
Vincent van Gogh
2002 - Honor(s) Greenberg and Jordan detail van Gogh's life in a compelling and engaging narrative that deftly incorporates quotations from his letters, and vividly portrays the circumstances... |
2002 - Honor(s) |
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Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado
2001 - Winner(s) This book portrays the adventurous life of Sir Walter Ralegh and his quest to find the legendary city of El Dorado and the fate of... |
2001 - Winner(s) | |
The Longitude Prize
2001 - Honor(s) Set in the exciting historical framework of the 18th century, this book chronicles the invention of a seagoing clock by John Harrison and the surrounding scientific... |
2001 - Honor(s) | |
Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America
2001 - Honor(s) This is a gripping tale about the disastrous storm that blasted the eastern seaboard in March 1888. "This work combines splendid storytelling, faultless research, thorough... |
2001 - Honor(s) | |
My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal
2001 - Honor(s) Webb deftly uses illustrated journal entries to document her participation in a two-month expedition to Antarctica to study Adelie penguins in 1996. She includes absorbing... |
2001 - Honor(s) | |
Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned
2001 - Honor(s) Cartoonist Winick tells the story of his friendship with AIDS-educator Pedro Zamora in a graphic-novel format. "Important lessons are presented in a style friendly to... |
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