Sibert Medal Award Books

The Sibert Medal was named in honor of Robert F. Sibert, long-time President of Bound to Stay Bound Books. It is awarded annually to authors and illustrators of the most distingushed informations book published in English.

A list of books that have won the Sibert Medal [1] since 2001.

In The Lists Below, The Titles We Own Are Linked To Our Catalog

2013 - 2010 Sibert Medal Award Winning Books

2013

Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon [2] by Steve Sheinkin**
Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin written and illustrated by Robert Byrd*
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 by Phillip M. Hoose*
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster [3] by Deborah Hopkinson*

2012

Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade [4] by Melissa Sweet**
Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene 'Bull' Connor by Larry Dane Brimner*
Drawing from Memory [5] written and illustrated by Allen Say*
The Elephant Scientist by Caitlin O'Connell and Donna J. Jackson*
Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem written and illustrated by Rosalyn Schanzer*

2011

Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot by Sy Montgomery**
Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring [6] by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan and illustrated by Brian Floca*
Lafayette and the American Revolution by Russell Freedman*

2010

Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone**
The Day-Glo Brothers: the True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors by Chris Barton and illustrated by Tony Persiani*
Moonshot: the Flight of Apollo 11 [7] written and illustrated by Brian Floca*
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice [8]by Phillip Hoose*

** author award winner
* author honor winner

2009 Sibert Medal Award Winning Books

We Are the Ship: the Story of the Negro League Baseball [9]
by Kadir Nelson**
Bodies From the Ice: Melting Glaciers and Rediscovery of the Past [10] by James M. Deem*
What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! [11]
by Barbara Kerley*

** author award winner
* author honor winner

2008 Sibert Medal Award Winning Books

The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain [12] by Peter Sis**
Lightship [13] by Brian Floca*
Spiders [14] by Nic Bishop*

** author award winner
* author honor winner

2007 Sibert Medal Award Winning Books

Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon [15]
by Catherine Thimmesh**
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement [16] by Ann Bausum*
Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea [17] by Sy Montgomery*
To Dance: a Ballerina's Graphic Novel [18] by Siena Cherson Siegel*

** author award winner
* author honor winner

2006 Sibert Medal Award Winning Books

Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the
H.L. Hunley [19] by Sally M. Walker**
Hilter Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow [20] by Susan Campbell Bartoletti*

** author award winner
* author honor winner

2005 Sibert Medal Award Winning Books

The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights [21] by Russell Freedman**
Walt Whitman: Words for America [22] by Barbara Kerley*
The Tarantula Scientist [23]by Sy Montgomery*
Sequoya: the Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing [24]
by James Rumford*

** author award winner
* author honor winner

2004 Sibert Medal Award Winning Books

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 [25] by Jim Murphy**
I Face the Wind [26] by Vicki Cobb*

** author award winner
* author honor winner

2003 Sibert Medal Award Winning Books

The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler [27] by James Cross Giblin**
Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 [28]
by Karen Blumenthal*
Hole in My Life [29] by Jack Gantos*
Action Jackson [30] by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan*
When Marian Sang [31] by Pam Muñoz Ryan*

** author award winner
* author honor winner

2002 Sibert Medal Award Winning Books

Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine 1845-1850 [32]
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti**
Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps [33] by Andrea Warren*
Vincent Van Gogh [34] by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan*
Brooklyn Bridge [35] by Lynn Curlee*

** author award winner
* author honor winner

2001 Sibert Medal Award Winning Books

Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado [36] by Marc Aronson**
The Longitude Prize [37] by Joan Dash*
Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America [38] by Jim Murphy*
My Season With Penguins: An Antarctic Journal [39] by Sophie Webb*
Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned [40]
by Judd Winick*

** author award winner 
* author honor winner

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