Sibert Award Picks

 

We have both served on the Sibert Award committee in past years, so we are quite familiar with the award criteria. Based on the books we have read in 2022, here are our favorites for the 2023 Sibert Award.

American Murderer: The Parasite That Haunted the South
by Gail Jarrow

Calkins Creek

Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky
by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
illustrated by Daniel Minter
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement

by Angela Joy

illustrated by Janelle Washington

Roaring Brook Press

Hanged!: Mary Surratt & the Plot to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln
by Sarah Miller
Random House Studio

How to Build a Human In Seven Evolutionary Steps
by Pamela S. Turner
art by John Gurche

Charlesbridge

Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting
by Kindra Neely
Little, Brown and Company

Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

by Elizabeth Partridge

illustrated by Lauren Tamaki

The Universe in You

by Jason Chin

Neal Porter Books