2011 REAL Sibert Award Winners

The winners of several youth media awards were announced last month at the ALA Midwinter Meeting. Information about all of the award winners can be found at the ALA website.

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

The 2011 Robert F. Sibert Medal was awarded to:

• Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot by Sy Montgomery

Two Sibert Honor Books were named:

• Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan

• Lafayette and the American Revolution by Russell Freedman

ACPL 2011 Mock Sibert Award Winner and Honor Books

This afternoon a group of five dedicated children's book readers gathered to discuss a long list of children's informational titles published in 2010. 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.

2011 MOCK SIBERT AWARD WINNER

Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
by Sy Montgomery

photographs by Nic Bishop
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children



2011 MOCK SIBERT HONOR BOOKS

They Called Themselves the KKK: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt


The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Susy)
by Barbara Kerley
illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham
Scholastic Press


Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors
by Joyce Sidman
illustrations by Beckie Prange
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children

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