Kids: The Sibert Award
First awarded in 2001, the Sibert Informational Book Award is presented annually to the author of the most distinguished informational book for children published during the preceding year. The award is named in honor of Robert F. Sibert, the long-time President of Bound to Stay Bound Books and administered by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.
2009 Winner
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson
2009 Honor Books
Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and Rediscovery of the Past, written 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, illusrated by Edwin Fotheringham.
2008 Winner
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis
2008 Honor Book
Lightship by Brian Floca
Nic Bishop Spiders by Nic Bishop
2007 Winner
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 On the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh
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
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel by Siena Cherson Siegel
2006 Winner
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley by Sally M. Walker
2006 Honor Books
Hitler Youth: Growing Up In Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbel Bartoletti
2005 Winner
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman
2005 Honor Books
Walt Whitman: Words for America by Barbara Kerley
The Tarantula Scientist by Sy Montgomery
Sequoyah:The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing by James Rumford
2004 Winner
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of1793 by Jim Murphy
2004 Honor Book
I Face the Wind by Vicki Cobb with illustrations by Julia Gorton
2003 Winner
The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler by James Cross Giblin
2003 Honor Books
Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 by Karen Blumenthal
Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
When Marian Sang by Pam Munoz Ryan
2002 Winner
Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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
2001 Winner
Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado by Marc Aronson
2001 Honor Books
The Longitude Prize by Joan Dash
Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America by Jim Murphy
My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal by Sophie Webb
Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned by Judd Winick (not owned by SPL)