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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Day, Nicholas | The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity | 2023 | ||
| Honor | Lanan, Jessica | Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider | |||
| Sandler, Martin W. | Shipwrecked! Diving for Hidden Time Capsules on the Ocean Floor | ||||
| Todd, Traci N. | Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes | ||||
| Montgomery, Sy | The Book of Turtles | ||||
| Winner | Partridge, Elizabeth | Seen and Unseen: What Toyo Miyatake, Dorothea Lange, and Ansel Adams' Photographs Reveal about the Japanese American Incarceration | 2022 | ||
| Levinson, Cynthia | The People's Painter | ||||
| Honor | Joy, Angela | Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil... | |||
| Portis, Antoinette | A Seed Grows | ||||
| Rockliff, Mara | Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott | ||||
| Stiefel, Chana | The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt her Town in Stories and Photographs | ||||
| Paeff, Colleen | The Great Stink | ||||
| Sheinkin, Steve | Fallout: Spies, Superbombs and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown | ||||
| Sorell, Traci | We Are Still Here | ||||
| Stewart, Melissa | Summertime Sleepers | ||||
| Honor | Rocco, John | How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure | 2021 | ||
| Slade, Suzanne | Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks | ||||
| Soontornvat, Christina | All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescues of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team | ||||
| Weatherford, Carole Boston | Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre | ||||
| Winner | Fleming, Candace | Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera | 2020 | ||
| Honor | Alexander, Lori | All in a Drop | |||
| Boyce, Jo Ann Allen | This Promise of Change | ||||
| Grimes, Nikki | Ordinary Hazards: a Memoir | ||||
| Winner | Sidman, Joyce | The Girl Who Drew Butterflies | 2019 | ||
| Honor | Brown, Don | The Unwanted | |||
| Jarrow, Gail | Spooked | ||||
| Mahin, Michael | When Angels Sing | ||||
| Portis, Antoinette | Hey, Water | ||||
| Sorrell, Traci | We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga | ||||
| Thimmesh, Catherine | Camp Panda | ||||
| Winner | Brimner, Larry Dane | Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 | 2018 | ||
| Honor | Burcaw, Shane | Not so Different: What You Really Want to Ask About Having a Disability | |||
| Chin, Jason | Grand Canyon | ||||
| Martin, Jacqueline Briggs | Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix | ||||
| Newman, Patricia | Sea Otter Heroes | ||||
| Winner | Lewis, John and Andrew Aydin | March: Book Three | 2017 | ||
| Honor | Fleming, Candace | Giant Squid | |||
| Marrin, Albert | Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II | ||||
| Stelson, Caren | Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story | ||||
| Winner | Tonatiuh, Duncan | Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras | 2016 | ||
| Honor | Brown, Don | Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans | |||
| Holmes, Ekua | Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement | ||||
| Hoose, Phillip | The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club | ||||
| Lowery, Lynda | Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom | ||||
| Winner | Bryant, Jennifer | The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus | 2015 | ||
| Honor | Fleming, Candace | The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, & the Fall of Imperial Russia | |||
| Robinson, Christian | Josephine: The Dazzling life of Josephine Baker | ||||
| Roy, Katherine | Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands | ||||
| Tonatiuh, Duncan | Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation | ||||
| Woodson, Jacqueline | Brown Girl Dreaming | ||||
| Winner | Roth, Susan | Parrots over Puerto Rico | 2014 | ||
| Honor | Cate, Annette | Look Up! Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard | |||
| Floca, Brian | Locomotive | ||||
| Greenberg, Jan | The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius | ||||
| Winner | Sheinkin, Steve | Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon | 2013 | ||
| Honor | Byrd, Robert | Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin | |||
| Hoose, Phillip | Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 | ||||
| Hopkinson, Deborah | Titanic: Voices from the Disaster | ||||
| Winner | Sweet, Melissa | Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade | 2012 | ||
| Honor | O'Connell, Caitlin | The Elephant Scientist | |||
| Say, Allen | Drawing from Memory | ||||
| Schanzer, Rosalyn | Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem | ||||
| Winner | Montgomery, Sy | Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot | 2011 | ||
| Honor | Brimner, Larry | Black & White : The Confrontation Between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bill" Connor | |||
| Freedman, Russell | Lafayette and the American Revolution | ||||
| Greenberg, Jan | Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring | ||||
| Winner | Stone, Tanya Lee | Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream | 2010 | ||
| Honor | Barton, Chris | The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors | |||
| Floca, Brian | Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 | ||||
| Hoose, Phillip | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | ||||
| Winner | Nelson, Kadir | We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball | 2009 | ||
| Honor | Deem, James M. | Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past | |||
| Kerley, Barbara | What to Do About Alice? | ||||
| Winner | Sis, Peter | The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain | 2008 | ||
| Honor | Bishop, Nic | Spiders | |||
| Floca, Brian | Lightship | ||||
| Winner | Thimmesh, Catherine | Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon | 2007 | ||
| Honor | 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 | ||||
| Winner | Walker, Sally M. | Secrets of a Civil War Submarine | 2006 | ||
| Honor | Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow |