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  Books & Reading  |  Award Books  |  Robert F Sibert Medal

Books and Reading

Award Books
Randolph Caldecott Medal
Coretta Scott King Book Award
John Newbery Medal
Pura Belpré Medal
Robert F. Sibert Medal
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
Texas Bluebonnet Award
 
Robert F. Sibert Medal Robert F. Sibert Medal

Awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished informational book published during the preceding year.

For more information on the Robert F. Sibert Medal, visit the American Library Association site. 
2026 Medal Winner

Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa

written by Sara Andrea Fajardo
illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal
2026 Honor Books

At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom

written by Erin Entrada Kelly
   

Go Tell It: How James Baldwin Became a Writer

written by Quartez Harris
illustrated by Gordon C. James
   

The History of We

written and illustrated by Nikkolas Smith
   

Silenced Voices: Reclaiming Memories from the Guatemalan Genocide

written and illustrated by Pablo Leon
   

A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, A Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out

written by Nicholas Day
illustrated by Yas Imamura
   
   

   

P A S T    W I N N E R S

Year Title Author
2026 Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa Sara Andrea Fajardo
2025 Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall Lynn Brunelle
2024 The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity Nicholas Day
2023 Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration Elizabeth Partridge
2022 The People’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art Cynthia Levinson
2021 Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera Candace Fleming
2020 Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story Kevin Noble Maillard
2019 The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science Joyce Sidman
2018 Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 Larry Dane Brimner
2017 March: Book Three John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
2016 Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras Duncan Tonatiuh
2015 The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus Jen Bryant
2014 Parrots over Puerto Rico Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore
2013 Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon  Steve Sheinkin
2012 Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade  Melissa Sweet
2011 Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot Sy Montgomery
2010 Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream Tanya Lee Stone
2009 We Are the Ship Kadir Nelson
2008 The Wall:  Growing Up Behind the Iron curtain Peter Sis
2007 Team Moon: How 4000,000 people Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon Catherine Thimmesh
2006 Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley Sally M. Walker

2005
The Voice that Challenged a Nation:  Marion Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights Russell Freedman

2004
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 Jim Murphy

2003
The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler James Cross Giblin

2002
Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 Susan Campbell Bartoletti

2001
Sir Walter Raleigh and the Quest for El Dorado Marc Aronson