Anderson's 2008 Mock Sibert Candidates

The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, established by the ALSC in 2001, is awarded annually to the author (American or US resident) 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, and is sponsored by the company. ALSC administers the award.

Information books are defined as those written and illustrated to present, organize and interpret documentable factual material for children. There are no limitations as to the character of the book, although poetry and traditional literature are not eligible. Honor books may be named; they shall be books that are truly distinguished.

The Winner

An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming by Al Gore

The Honor Books
(in winning order)

Disguised: A Wartime Memoir by Rita de Clercq De Zubli
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz,
illus. Robert Byrd
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles, Beatlemania and the Music That Changed the World
by Bob Spitz
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis
Monsters and Water Beasts by Karen Miller

The Candidates

Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children about Their Art – an anthology, various artists

Edward Hopper: Painter of Light and Shadow by Susan Goldman Rubin

Factory Girl by Barbara Greenwood

Into the West: From Reconstruction to the Final Days of the American Frontier by James M. McPherson

The Many Rides of Paul Revere by James Cross Giblin

M.L.K.: Journey of a King by Tonya Bolden

Muckrakers: How Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Lincoln Steffens Helped Expose Scandal, Inspire Reform, and Invent Investigative Journalism by Ann Bausum

One Well: The Story of Water on Earth by Rochelle Strauss, illus. Rosemary Woods

Patience Wright: America’s First Sculptor and Revolutionary Spy by Pegi Deitz Shea, illus. Bethanne Andersen

The Remarkable Rough-Riding Life of Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Empire America by Cheryl Harness

Skyscraper by Lynn Curlee

Snow Baby: The Arctic Childhood of Admiral Robert E. Peary’s Daring Daughter by Katherine Kirkpatrick

Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat

Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam and the Science of Ocean Motion by Loree Griffin Burns

The Trailblazing Life of Daniel Boone: How Early Americans Took to the Road by Cheryl Harness

Up Close: Oprah Winfrey - Media Queen by Ilene Cooper

Up Close: Robert F. Kennedy - Crusader by Marc Aronson

Vinnie and Abraham by Dawn FitzGerald, illus. Catherine Stock

Walker Evans: Photographer of America by Thomas Nau