Sibert Medal Winners

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 2023
Honor Sandler, Martin W. Shipwrecked! Diving for Hidden Time Capsules on the Ocean Floor 910.452 S217sh 2023
Honor Todd, Traci N. Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes 92 O73to 2023
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
Winner Levinson, Cynthia The People's Painter 92 S525Le 2022
Honor Joy, Angela Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil... 92 T5743jo 2022
Honor Portis, Antoinette A Seed Grows 575.68 P852se 2022
Honor Rockliff, Mara Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott 92 G488ro 2022
Honor Stiefel, Chana The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt her Town in Stories and Photographs 940.5318 S855to 2022
Honor Paeff, Colleen The Great Stink  92 B362pa / ebook 2022
Honor Sheinkin, Steve Fallout: Spies, Superbombs and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown 972.91064 S543fa 2022
Honor Sorell, Traci We Are Still Here 973.0497 S713we 2022
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
Honor Slade, Suzanne Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks 92 B873ex 2021
Honor Soontornvat, Christina All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescues of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team 796.5250 S711aL 2021
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 2020
Honor Boyce, Jo Ann Allen This Promise of Change 92 B789bo 2020
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 2019
Honor Jarrow, Gail Spooked 791.4472 J376sp 2019
Honor Mahin, Michael When Angels Sing 92 S232ma 2019
Honor Portis, Antoinette Hey, Water 553.7 P852he 2019
Honor Sorrell, Traci We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga 497.55711 S713we 2019
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 2018
Honor Chin, Jason Grand Canyon 557.9132 C539gr 2018
Honor Martin, Jacqueline Briggs Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix 92 C545ma 2018
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 2017
Honor Marrin, Albert Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II 940.5317 M359up 2017
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 2016
Honor Holmes, Ekua Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement 92 H214we 2016
Honor Hoose, Phillip The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club 940.53489 H789bo 2016
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 2015
Honor Robinson, Christian Josephine: The Dazzling life of Josephine Baker 92 B1678po 2015
Honor Roy, Katherine Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands 597.33 R888ne 2015
Honor Tonatiuh, Duncan Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation 379.263 T663se 2015
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 2014
Honor Floca, Brian Locomotive 385.0973 F628Lo 2014
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 2013
Honor Hoose, Phillip Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 598.07234 H789mo 2013
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 2012
Honor Say, Allen Drawing from Memory 92 S274sa 2012
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 2011
Honor Freedman, Russell Lafayette and the American Revolution 92 L161fq 2011
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 2010
Honor Floca, Brian Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11  629.454 F628mo 2010
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 2009
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 2008
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 2007
Honor Montgomery, Sy Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea 599.22 M788qu 2007
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