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