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Kids' Catalog | Award Winners | Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award

The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, established by the Association for Library Service to Children in 2001, is awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished informational book 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, Inc. of Jacksonville, Illinois, and is sponsored by the company. The Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, administers the award. ALSC/Robert F.Sibert Informational Book Award Terms and Criteria.

2008
Sίs, Peter.  The Wall: Growing up behind the Iron Curtain.

Honor Books:
Bishop, Nic.  Nic Bishop Spiders.
Floca, Brian.  Lightship.

2007
Thimmesh, Catherine.  Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon.

Honor Books:
Bausum, Ann.  Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement.
Montgomery, Sy.  Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea.
Siegel, Siena Cherson.  To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel.

2006
Walker, Sally M.  Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H. L. Hunley.

Honor Book:
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.  Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow.

2005
Freedman, Russell.  The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights.

Honor Books:
Kerley, Barbara.  Walt Whitman: Words for America.
Montgomery, Sy.  The Tarantula Scientist.
Rumford, James.  Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing.

2004
Murphy, Jim.  An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793.

Honor Books:
Cobb, Vicki.  I Face The Wind.

2003
Giblin, James Cross.  The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler.

Honor Books:
Blumenthal, Karen.  Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929.
Gantos, Jack.  Hole in My Life.
Greenberg, Jan.  Action Jackson.
Ryan, Pam Muñoz.  When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson, the Voice of a Century.

2002
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.  Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845–1850.

Honor Books:
Curlee, Lynn.  Brooklyn Bridge.
Greenberg, Jan, and Sandra Jordan.  Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist.
Warren, Andrea.  Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps.

2001
Aronson, Marc.  Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado.

Honor Books:
Dash, Joan.  The Longitude Prize.
Murphy, Jim.  Blizzard! The Storm that Changed America.
Webb, Sophie.  My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal.
Winick, Judd.  Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned.