A children’s book award for the ‘most distinguished informational book published in English in the preceding year.’

... this award recognises the outstanding work of authors and illustrators who make facts fascinating.

• The Award was set up in 2001 by the Association for Library Service to Children.
• It is named in honor of Robert F. Sibert, who was president of Bound to Stay Bound and who died in 1998.
• The award is only open to books first published in the U.S. and in English.
• Past winners include The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russel Freedman, and Sir Walter Raleigh and the Quest for El Dorado by Marc Aronson.
• Past honor books include The Tarantula Scientist and Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea – both by Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop (photographer); Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing by James Rumford, translated into Cherokee by Anna Sixkiller Huckaby; and Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned by Judd Winick.

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