Guide to Education Resources

The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, established by the Association for Library Service to Children in 2001 with support from Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc., is awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in English during the preceding year. The award is named in honor of Robert F. Sibert, the long-time President of Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc. of Jacksonville, Illinois. ALSC administers the award. All books are located in the Juvenile section unless otherwise indicated.

  2009 Kadir Nelson We are the Ship: the Story of Negro League Baseball Available through the Circuit

  2008 Peter Sis The Wall: Growing Up behind the Iron Curtain NC975.5.S57 A2 2007

  2007 Catherine Thimmesh Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon Available through the Circuit

  2006 Sally M. Walker Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley E599.H4 W35 2005

  2005 Russell Freedman The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights ML3930.A5 F73 2004

  2004 Jim Murphy An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 RA644.Y4 M875 2003

  2003 James Cross Giblin The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler Available through the Circuit

  2002 Susan Campbell Bartoletti Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 DA950.7 .B37 2001

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