Award-Sibert

 

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The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award is named in honor of Robert F. Sibert, the long-time President of Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc. of Jacksonville, Illinois. It is awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in English during the preceding year.

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2008 Sibert Award BookThe Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Peter Sís) j921 S622s

2008 Sibert Honor Books      

                                                - Lightship (Brian Floca)  j387.28 F628L

                                                - Nic Bishop Spiders (Nic Bishop) j595.44 B622n                                                                                                       

2007 Sibert Award BookTeam Moon: How 40,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon (Catherine

                                                Timmesh) j920 P964t

2007 Sibert Honor Books

- Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil

  Rights Movement (Ann Bausum) j323.092 B351f

- Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of Guinea

                                                 (Sy Montgomery/Nic Bishop) j599.22 M788q

- To Dance: A Memoir (Siena Cherson Siegle/ Mark Siegle) j921 S5715s

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2006 Sibert Award Book Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of H.L. Hunley

                                                 (Sally M. Walker) j973.757 W184s

2006 Sibert Honor Book

                                                - Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow (Susan Campell Bartoletti)

                                                   j943.086 H675b

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2005 Sibert Award Book The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal

                                                Rights (Russell Freedman) j921 A548f

2005 Sibert Honor Books

                                                - Walt Whitman: Words for America (Barbara Kerley)

                                                - The Tarantula Scientist (Sy Montgomery/Nic Bishop) j595.44 M788t

                                                - Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing (James Rumford)

                                                   j921 S479a

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2004 Sibert Award Book An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic

                                             of 1793 (Jim Murphy) j614.541 M978a

2004 Sibert Honor Book

                                                - I Face the Wind (Vicki Cobb) j551.518 C653i

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2003 Sibert Award Book The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler (James Cross Giblin) j921 H675g

2003 Sibert Honor Books

                                                - Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 (Karen Blumenthal)

                                                   j332.642 B658s

                                                - Hole in My Life (Jack Gantos) j921 G211h

                                                - Action Jackson (Jan Greenburg and Sandra Jordan/ Robert Andrew Parker)

                                                  j921 P776g

                                                - When Marian Sang (Pam Muñoz Ryan/ Brian Selznick) j921 A548r

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2002 Sibert Award Book Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850

                                              (Susan Campbell Bartoletti) j941.5 B292b

2002 Sibert Honor Books

                                                - Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps (Andrea Warren)

                                                   j921 M2703w

                                                - Vincent van Gogh (Jan Greenberg and Sondra Jordan) j921 G613g

                                                - Brooklyn Bridge (Lynn Curlee) j624.5 C975b

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2001 Sibert Award Book Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado (Marc Aronson) j921 R163a            

2001 Sibert Honor Books

                                                - The Longitude Prize (Joan Dash/ Dusan Petricic) j681.11 D229L

                                                - Blizzard: The Storm That Changed America (Jim Murphy) j974.71 M978b

                                                - My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal (Sophie Webb)

                                                  j598.47 W368m

- Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss and What I Learned (Judd Winick)

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Professional Resources

Marks, Diana F.  Children’s Book Award Handbook.  2006.  CML 810.809282 M346c

                                   

 

 

 

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