The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, established by the Association for Library Service to Children in 2001, is awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in English during the preceding year.   

2022 Medal Winner  

 
The People’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art by Cynthia Levinson, illustrated by Evanston Turk 

2022 Honor Titles 

 

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford and Floyd Cooper 

 

Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown by Steve Sheinkin 

 

Summertime Sleepers: Animals That Estivate by Melissa Stewart, illustrated by Sarah S. Brannen 

 

We Are Still Here! Native American Truths that Everyone Should Know by Traci Sorell, illustrated by Frane Lessac 

 

The Great Stink How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London’s Poop Pollution Problem by Colleen Paeff, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter 

2021 Medal Winner 

 

Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera, written by Candace Fleming, illustrated by Eric Rohmann 

2020 Medal Winner 

 

Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story, written by Kevin Noble Maillard and illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal 

2019 Medal Winner 

 

The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science, written by Joyce Sidman 

2018 Medal Winner 

 

Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961, written by Larry Dane Brimner 

2017 Medal Winner 

 

March: Book Three, written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, and illustrated by Nate Powell 

2016 Medal Winner 

 

Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras, written and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh 

2015 Medal Winner 

 

The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus, written by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa Sweet 

2014 Medal Winner 

 

Parrots over Puerto Rico, written by Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore, illustrated by Susan L. Roth 

2013 Medal Winner 

 

Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin 

2012 Medal Winner 

 

Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade by Melissa Sweet 

2011 Medal Winner 

 

Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot, written by Sy Montgomery, photographs by Nic Bishop 

2010 Medal Winner 

 

Almost Astronauts: 20 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone 

2009 Medal Winner 

 

We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson 

2008 Medal Winner 

 

The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis 

2007 Medal Winner 

 

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

2006 Medal Winner 

 

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

2005 Medal Winner 

 

The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman 

2004 Medal Winner 

 

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

2003 Medal Winner 

 

The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler by James Cross Giblin 

2002 Medal Winner 

 

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

2001 Medal Winner 

 

Sir Walter Raleigh and the Quest for El Dorado by Marc Aronson