Research Guides: Handy Topics in the Curriculum Department: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award

The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal honors the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published during the preceding year.

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2024

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The Mona Lisa vanishes : a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity

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The book of turtles
Holding her own : the exceptional life of Jackie Ormes
Jumper : a day in the life of a backyard jumping spider
Shipwrecked! : diving for time capsules on the ocean floor

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2023

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Seen and unseen : what Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake and Ansel Adams's photographs reveal about the Japanese American incarceration

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2022

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The people's painter : how Ben Shahn fought for justice with art

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2021

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Honeybee : the busy life of Apis mellifera

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2020

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Fry bread : a Native American family story

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2019

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The girl who drew butterflies : how Maria Merian's art changed science

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2018

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Twelve days in May : Freedom Ride 1961

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2017

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March. Book three

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2016

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Funny bones : Posada and his Day of the Dead calaveras

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2015

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The right word : Roget and his thesaurus

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2014

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Parrots over Puerto Rico

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2013

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Bomb : the race to build and steal the world's most dangerous weapon

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2012

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Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2011

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Kakapo rescue : saving the world's strangest parrot

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2010

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Almost astronauts : 13 women who dared to dream

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2009

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We are the ship : the story of Negro League baseball

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2008

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The wall : growing up behind the Iron Curtain

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2007

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Team Moon : how 400,000 people landed Apollo 11 on the moon

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2006

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Secrets of a Civil War submarine : solving the mysteries of the H.L. Hunley

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Hitler Youth : growing up in Hitler's shadow

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2005

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The voice that challenged a nation : Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2004

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An American plague : the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793

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I face the wind

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2003

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The life and death of Adolf Hitler

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2002

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Black potatoes : the story of the great Irish famine, 1845-1850

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award 2001

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Sir Walter Ralegh and the quest for El Dorado

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