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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 2016

The 2016 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal went to Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras by Duncan Tonatiuh. 4 books were Honor Books.

Winner

  1. Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras by Duncan Tonatiuhsource (opens in a new tab)

Honor Books

  1. Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans by Don Brownsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoosesource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Elspeth Leacock, Susan Buckley and PJ Loughransource (opens in a new tab)
  4. Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford and Ekua Holmessource (opens in a new tab)

About the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal

Medal and Honor Books from the ALSC list of Sibert winners and honors, 2001-present; this file covers 2006-2025. Year is the award year ALSC uses (announced each January for books published the prior year). Author field names the writers, then illustrators or photographers when different, as credited.

Organization: Association for Library Service to Children (American Library Association). Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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