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Sibert Medal

Awarded for	most distinguished informational book for children
Presented by	Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) a division of the American Library Association (ALA)
Country	United States
First awarded	2001

The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 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 author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in English during the preceding year.^[1] The award is named in honor of Robert F. Sibert, the long-time President of Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc. of Jacksonville, Illinois. ALSC administers the award.^[1]

Recipients

Year	Author	Illustrator	Title	Citation^[2]^[3]
2009	Nelson Kadir Kadir Nelson	Nelson Kadir Kadir Nelson	We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball	Winner
2009	Deem James M. James M. Deem	na	Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past	Honor
2009	Kerley Barbara Barbara Kerley	Fotheringham Edwin Edwin Fotheringham	What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!	Honor
2008	sis,peter Peter Sís	sis,peter Peter Sís	The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain	Winner
2008	Floca Brian Brian Floca	Floca Brian Brian Floca	Lightship	Honor
2008	Bishop Nic Nic Bishop	Bishop Nic Nic Bishop	Nic Bishop Spiders	Honor
2007	ThimmeshCatherine Catherine Thimmesh	na	Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon	Winner
2007	Bausum Ann Ann Bausum	na	Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement	Honor
2007	Montgomery Sy Sy Montgomery	Bishop Nic Nic Bishop	Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea	Honor
2007	Siegel Siena Cherson Siena Cherson Siegel	Siegel Mark Mark Siegel	To Dance: A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel	Honor
2006	WalkerSally M. Sally M. Walker	na	Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley	Winner
2006	Bartoletti Susan Campbell Susan Campbell Bartoletti	na	Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow	Honor
2005	FreedmanRussell Russell Freedman	na	The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights	Winner
2005	Kerley Barbara Barbara Kerley	Selznick Brian Brian Selznick	Walt Whitman: Words for America	Honor
2005	Montgomery Sy Sy Montgomery	Bishop Nic Nic Bishop	Tarantula Scientist, the The Tarantula Scientist	Honor
2005	Rumford James James Rumford	Rumford James James Rumford	Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing	Honor
2004	Murphy Jim Jim Murphy	na	An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793	Winner
2004	Cobb Vicki Vicki Cobb	Gorton Julia Julia Gorton	I Face the Wind	Honor
2003	Giblin James Cross James Cross Giblin	na	Life and Death of Adolf Hitler, the The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler	Winner
2003	Blumenthal Karen Karen Blumenthal	na	Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929	Honor
2003	Gantos Jack Jack Gantos		Hole in My Life	Honor
2003	Greenberg, Jan Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan	Parker Robert Andrew Robert Andrew Parker	Action Jackson	Honor
2003	Ryan Pam Munoz Pam Munoz Ryan	Selznick Brian Brian Selznick	When Marian Sang	Honor
2002	Bartoletti Susan Campbell Susan Campbell Bartoletti		Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850	Winner
2002	Warren Andrea Andrea Warren		Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps	Honor
2002	Greenberg, Jan Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan	na	Vincent van Gogh	Honor
2002	Curlee Lynn Lynn Curlee	Curlee Lynn Lynn Curlee	Brooklyn Bridge	Honor
2001	Aronson Marc Marc Aronson	Aronson Marc Marc Aronson	Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado	Winner
2001	Dash Joan Joan Dash	Petricic Dusan Dusan Petricic	Longitude Prize, the The Longitude Prize	Honor
2001	Jim Murphy Jim Murphy Jim Murphy		Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America	Honor
2001	Webb Sophie Sophie Webb	Webb Sophie Sophie Webb	My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal	Honor
2001	Winick Judd Judd Winick	Winick Judd Judd Winick	Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned	Honor

References

^ ^a ^b "About the Sibert Medal". American Library Association. 2009. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/sibertmedal/sibertabout/index.cfm. Retrieved 2009-04-09.
^ "Sibert Medal Past Winners". American Library Association. 2009. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/sibertmedal/sibertpast/sibertmedalpast.cfm. Retrieved 2009-04-08.
^ "Sibert Medal Current Winners". American Library Association. 2009. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/sibertmedal/index.cfm. Retrieved 2009-04-25.

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Founders	Justin Winsor • Charles Ammi Cutter • Samuel S. Green • James L. Whitney • Melvil Dewey • Fred B. Perkins • Thomas W. Bicknell

Notable divisions	American Association of School Librarians (AASL) • Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) • Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) • Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) • Library Information Technology Association (LITA) • Public Library Association (PLA) • Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) • Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)

Awards	Newbery • Caldecott • Wilder • Batchelder • Arbuthnot • King • Stonewall • Dartmouth • RUSA • Carnegie • Belpre • Alex • Edwards • Printz • Sibert • Schneider • Geisel • Odyssey • Morris

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