2009 REAL Sibert Award Winners

The winners of several youth media awards were announced this morning at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver. A press release announcing all of the winners will be available in the Youth Media Awards Press Kit at http://www.ala.org/yma later this morning.

Of course, on this blog, we're most excited about those honored with the Sibert Award for informational books, so here they are:

The 2009 Robert F. Sibert Medal was awarded to:

• We are the Ship: the Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson

Two Sibert honor books were named:

• Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past by James M. Deem
  

• What to do about Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove her Father Teddy Crazy! by Barbara Kerley

ACPL Mock Sibert Award Winner and Honor Books

Yesterday afternoon a group of seven dedicated children's book readers gathered to discuss a long list of children's informational titles published in 2008. We learned a lot from each other and from our discussion about authority, documentation, organization, clarity, presentation style and more! In the end, we selected our Mock Sibert Award winner and three honor books.

2009 MOCK SIBERT AWARD WINNER

Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry
by Scott Reynolds Nelson with Marc Aronson
National Geographic


2009 MOCK SIBERT HONORS

Frogs
by Nic Bishop
Scholastic

She Touched the World: Laura Bridgman, Deaf-Blind Pioneer
by Sally Hobart Alexander and Robert Alexander
Clarion Books

Wild Tracks: A Guide to Nature's Footprints
by Jim Arnosky
Sterling

Congratulations to our mock winners, and thanks to everyone who participated in this year's program!