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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 2023

The 2023 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal went to Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge and Lauren Tamaki. 4 books were Honor Books.

Winner

  1. Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge and Lauren Tamakisource (opens in a new tab)

Honor Books

  1. A Seed Grows by Antoinette Portissource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Angela Joy and Janelle Washingtonsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Mara Rockliff and R. Gregory Christiesource (opens in a new tab)
  4. The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs by Chana Stiefel and Susan Galsource (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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