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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award

FOr most distinguished informational book for children.

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal
2020-2029

2020

Fry Bread : a Native American Family Story by Kevin Nobel Maillard, illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal

 

  • All in a Drop : How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World by Lori Alexander, illustrated by Vivien Mildenberger

  • This Promise of Change : One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality by Jo Ann Allen Boyce & Debbie Levy

  • Ordinary Hazards : a Memoir by Nikki Grimes

  • Hey, Water! written & illustrated by Antoinette Portis




2021

Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera by Candace Fleming, illustrated by Eric Rohmann

  • How We Got to the Moon : the People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure written & illustrated by John Rocco

  • Exquisite : the Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks by Suzanne Slade, illustrated by Cozbi A. Cabrera

  • All Thirteen : the Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat



2022

The People's Painter : How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art by Cynthia Levinson, illustrated by Evan Turk

  • The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgetter Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem by Colleen Paeff, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter

  • Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown by Steve Sheinkin

  • We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know by Traci Sorell, illustrated by Frané Lessac

  • Summertime Sleepers: Animals That Estivate by Melissa Stewart, illustrated by Sara S. Brannen

  • Unspeakable: the Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Floyd Cooper

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2023

Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partidge; illustrated by Lauren Tamaki

  • Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Angela Joy; illustrated by Janelle Washington

  • A Seed Grows written & illustrated by Antoinette Portis

  • Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomer Bus Boycott by Mara Rockliff; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie

  • The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs by Chana Stiefel; illustrated by Susan Gal

2024

Mona Lisa Vanishes: a Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas Day ; illustrated by Brett Helquist

  • The Book of Turtles by Sy Montgomery ; illulstrated by Matt Patterson

  • Holding Her Own: the Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes by Traci N. Todd ; illustrated by Shannon Wright

  • Jumper: a Day in the LIfe of the Backyard Jumping Spider written & illustrated by Jessica Lanan

  • Shipwrecked!: Diving for Hidden Time Capsules on the Ocean Floor by Mart W. Sandler

2025

Life After Whale : the Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall by Lynn Brunelle ; illustrated by Jason Chin

  • Call Me Roberto!  Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos by Nathalie Alonso ; illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez

  • The Enigma Girls : How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II by Candace Fleming

  • The Girl Who Sang : a Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival by Estell Nadel & Sammy Savos with Bethany Strout ; illustrated by Sammy Savos

  • Wings of an Eagle : the Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills by Bill Mills & Donna Janell Bowman ; illustrated by S.D. Nelson