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. See a complete list of past Sibert Medal winners.
| Subject | Author | Title | Call number | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honor | Nadel, Estelle | The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival | 940.5318 N134gi | 2024 | |
| Winner | Day, Nicholas | The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity | 364.16 D274mo | 2023 | |
| Honor | Lanan, Jessica | Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider | 595.44 L243ju | ||
| Sandler, Martin W. | Shipwrecked! Diving for Hidden Time Capsules on the Ocean Floor | 910.452 S217sh | |||
| Todd, Traci N. | Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes | 92 O73to | |||
| Montgomery, Sy | The Book of Turtles | 597.92 M788bo | |||
| Winner | Partridge, Elizabeth | Seen and Unseen: What Toyo Miyatake, Dorothea Lange, and Ansel Adams' Photographs Reveal about the Japanese American Incarceration | 940.5317 P275se | 2022 | |
| Levinson, Cynthia | The People's Painter | 92 S525Le | |||
| Honor | Joy, Angela | Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil... | 92 T5743jo | ||
| Portis, Antoinette | A Seed Grows | 575.68 P852se | |||
| Rockliff, Mara | Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott | 92 G488ro | |||
| Stiefel, Chana | The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt her Town in Stories and Photographs | 940.5318 S855to | |||
| Paeff, Colleen | The Great Stink | 92 B362pa / ebook | |||
| Sheinkin, Steve | Fallout: Spies, Superbombs and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown | 972.91064 S543fa | |||
| Sorell, Traci | We Are Still Here | 973.0497 S713we | |||
| Stewart, Melissa | Summertime Sleepers | 571.786 S851su | |||
| Honor | Rocco, John | How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure | 629.454 R671ho | 2021 | |
| Slade, Suzanne | Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks | 92 B873ex | |||
| Soontornvat, Christina | All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescues of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team | 796.5250 S711aL | |||
| Weatherford, Carole Boston | Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre | 976.6860 W3625un | |||
| Winner | Fleming, Candace | Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera | 595.799 F597ho | 2020 | |
| Honor | Alexander, Lori | All in a Drop | 92 L4874aL | ||
| Boyce, Jo Ann Allen | This Promise of Change | 92 B789bo | |||
| Grimes, Nikki | Ordinary Hazards: a Memoir | 92 G862gr | |||
| Winner | Sidman, Joyce | The Girl Who Drew Butterflies | 92 M561si | 2019 | |
| Honor | Brown, Don | The Unwanted | 956.9104 B877un | ||
| Jarrow, Gail | Spooked | 791.4472 J376sp | |||
| Mahin, Michael | When Angels Sing | 92 S232ma | |||
| Portis, Antoinette | Hey, Water | 553.7 P852he | |||
| Sorrell, Traci | We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga | 497.55711 S713we | |||
| Thimmesh, Catherine | Camp Panda | 599.789 T443ca | |||
| Winner | Brimner, Larry Dane | Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 | 323.092 B857tw | 2018 | |
| Honor | Burcaw, Shane | Not so Different: What You Really Want to Ask About Having a Disability | 362.43 B947no | ||
| Chin, Jason | Grand Canyon | 557.9132 C539gr | |||
| Martin, Jacqueline Briggs | Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix | 92 C545ma | |||
| Newman, Patricia | Sea Otter Heroes | 599.7695 N554se | |||
| Winner | Lewis, John and Andrew Aydin | March: Book Three | 323.092 L6745mas | 2017 | |
| Honor | Fleming, Candace | Giant Squid | 594.58 F597gi | ||
| Marrin, Albert | Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II | 940.5317 M359up | |||
| Stelson, Caren | Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story | 92 Y295st | |||
| Winner | Tonatiuh, Duncan | Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras | 92 T663to | 2016 | |
| Honor | Brown, Don | Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans | 363.3492 B877dr | ||
| Holmes, Ekua | Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement | 92 H214we | |||
| Hoose, Phillip | The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club | 940.53489 H789bo | |||
| Lowery, Lynda | Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom | 323.1196 L917tu | |||
| Winner | Bryant, Jennifer | The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus | 92 R732br | 2015 | |
| Honor | Fleming, Candace | The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, & the Fall of Imperial Russia | 947.083 F597fa | ||
| Robinson, Christian | Josephine: The Dazzling life of Josephine Baker | 92 B1678po | |||
| Roy, Katherine | Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands | 597.33 R888ne | |||
| Tonatiuh, Duncan | Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation | 379.263 T663se | |||
| Woodson, Jacqueline | Brown Girl Dreaming | 92 W8986wo | |||
| Winner | Roth, Susan | Parrots over Puerto Rico | 598.71 R845pa | 2014 | |
| Honor | Cate, Annette | Look Up! Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard | 598.07234 C357Lo | ||
| Floca, Brian | Locomotive | 385.0973 F628Lo | |||
| Greenberg, Jan | The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius | 92 O386gr | |||
| Winner | Sheinkin, Steve | Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon | 623.45119 S543bo | 2013 | |
| Honor | Byrd, Robert | Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin | 92 F831by | ||
| Hoose, Phillip | Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 | 598.07234 H789mo | |||
| Hopkinson, Deborah | Titanic: Voices from the Disaster | 910.9163 H797ti | |||
| Winner | Sweet, Melissa | Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade | 92 S2449sw | 2012 | |
| Honor | O'Connell, Caitlin | The Elephant Scientist | 599.674 O18el | ||
| Say, Allen | Drawing from Memory | 92 S274sa | |||
| Schanzer, Rosalyn | Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem | 133.409744 S299wi | |||
| Winner | Montgomery, Sy | Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot | 639.978 M788ka | 2011 | |
| Honor | Brimner, Larry | Black & White : The Confrontation Between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bill" Connor | 323.1196 B8575bl | ||
| Freedman, Russell | Lafayette and the American Revolution | 92 L161fq | |||
| Greenberg, Jan | Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring | 792.8092 G798ba | |||
| Winner | Stone, Tanya Lee | Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream | 629.45 S881al | 2010 | |
| Honor | Barton, Chris | The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors | 535.352 B293da | ||
| Floca, Brian | Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 | 629.454 F628mo | |||
| Hoose, Phillip | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | 92 C7272ho2 | |||
| Winner | Nelson, Kadir | We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball | 796.357 N427we | 2009 | |
| Honor | Deem, James M. | Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past | 599.9 D311bo | ||
| Kerley, Barbara | What to Do About Alice? | 92 L8592ke | |||
| Winner | Sis, Peter | The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain | 92 S622si | 2008 | |
| Honor | Bishop, Nic | Spiders | 595.44 B622sp | ||
| Floca, Brian | Lightship | 387.28 F628Li | |||
| Winner | Thimmesh, Catherine | Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon | 629.454 T443te | 2007 | |
| Honor | Bausum, Ann | Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement | 323.092 B351fr | ||
| Montgomery, Sy | Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea | 599.22 M788qu | |||
| Siegel, Siena Cherson | To Dance | 92 S5713si | |||
| Winner | Walker, Sally M. | Secrets of a Civil War Submarine | 973.757 W184se | 2006 | |
| Honor | Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow | 943.086 B292hi |