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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal

The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal is awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in the United States in English during the preceding year. The award is named in honor of Robert F. Sibert, the long-time President of Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc. of Jacksonville, Illinois.  Click here for additional information and a complete list of honorees.

Twelve days in May : Freedom Ride 1961
March. Book three
Funny bones : Posada and his Day of the Dead calaveras
The right word : Roget and his thesaurus
Parrots over Puerto Rico
Bomb : the race to build and steal the world's most dangerous weapon
Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade
Kakapo rescue : saving the world's strangest parrot
Almost astronauts : 13 women who dared to dream
We are the ship : the story of Negro League baseball
The wall : growing up behind the Iron Curtain
Secrets of a Civil War submarine : solving the mysteries of the H.L. Hunley
An American plague : the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793
Black potatoes : the story of the great Irish famine, 1845-1850
The life and death of Adolf Hitler
The voice that challenged a nation : Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights