January 28, 2014 | strande
The Robert F. Sibert Medal is awarded yearly to an outstanding nonfiction picture book. There are frequently several honor books named as well, and this year was no exception. If you are looking for something both beautiful and informative, try this list of award-winning titles.
2014 Medal Winner and Honor Books:
Parrots over Puerto Rico by Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore ; collages by Susan L. Roth
A splash of red: the life and art of Horace Pippin by written by Jen Bryant ; illustrated by Melissa Sweet
Look up!: bird-watching in your own backyard by Annette LeBlanc Cate
Locomotive by Brian Floca
The mad potter: George E. Ohr, eccentric genius by Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan
Past Winners and Honor Books:
Bomb: the race to build and steal the world's most dangerous weapon by Steve Sheinkin
Moonbird: a year on the wind with the great survivor B95 by Phillip Hoose
Titanic: voices from the disaster by Deborah Hopkinson
Balloons over Broadway: the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade by written and illustrated by Melissa Sweet
The elephant scientist by Caitlin O'Connell and Donna M. Jackson ; photographs by Caitlin O'Connell and Timothy Rodwell
Witches!: the absolutely true tale of disaster in Salem by Rosalyn Schanzer
Kakapo rescue: saving the world's strangest parrot by text by Sy Montgomery ; photographs by Nic Bishop
Ballet for Martha: making Appalachian Spring by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan ; illustrated by Brian Floca
Lafayette and the American Revolution by Russell Freedman
Almost astronauts: 13 women who dared to dream by Tanya Lee Stone ; [foreword by Margaret A. Weitekamp]
The Day-Glo brothers by Chris Barton ; illustrated by Tony Persiani
Moonshot: the flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca
Claudette Colvin: twice toward justice by Phillip Hoose
We are the ship: the story of Negro League baseball by words and paintings by Kadir Nelson ; forward by Hank Aaron
What to do about Alice?: how Alice Roosevelt broke the rules, charmed the world, and drove her father Teddy crazy! by Barbara Kerley ; illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham
The wall: growing up behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sís
Lightship by Brian Floca
Spiders by Nic Bishop
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of the civil rights movement by Ann Bausum ; forewords by Freedom Riders Congressman John Lewis and Jim Zwerg
Quest for the tree kangaroo: an expedition to the cloud forest of New Guinea by text by Sy Montgomery ; photographs by Nic Bishop
Secrets of a Civil War submarine: solving the mysteries of the H.L. Hunley by Sally M. Walker
To dance: a memoir by Siena Cherson Siegel ; with artwork by Mark Siegel
Hitler Youth: growing up in Hitler's shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The voice that challenged a nation: Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights by Russell Freedman
Walt Whitman: words for America by Barbara Kerley ; illustrated by Brian Selznick
The tarantula scientist by text by Sy Montgomery ; photographs by Nic Bishop
Sequoyah: the Cherokee man who gave his people writing by James Rumford
I face the wind by Vicki Cobb ; illustrated by Julia Gorton
The life and death of Adolf Hitler by James Cross Giblin
Six days in October: the stock market crash of 1929 by Karen Blumenthal
Hole in my life by Jack Gantos
Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan ; illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker
Black potatoes: the story of the great Irish famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
When Marian sang: the true recital of Marian Anderson, the voice of a century by [written by] Pam Munoz Ryan ; [illustrated by] Brian Selznick
Surviving Hitler: a boy in the Nazi death camps by Andrea Warren
The Brooklyn Bridge by Lynn Curlee
My season with penguins: an Antarctic journal by Sophie Webb