Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 2011

The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal is awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in the United States 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.

Medal Winner

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

Honor Book

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

Honor Book

Lafayette and the
American Revolution
by Russell Freedman