Annal:2005 Sibert Medal
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Sibert Medal in the year 2005. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
- 2005 Sibert winner
- 2005 Newbery honor
- Score: 16.55
“A voice like yours,” celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini told contralto Marian Anderson, “is heard once in a hundred years.” This insightful account of the great African American vocalist considers her life and musical career in the context of the history of civil rights in this country. Drawing on Anderson’s own writings and other contemporary accounts, Russell Freedman shows readers a singer pursuing her art despite the social constraints that limited the careers of black performers in the 1920s and 1930s. Though not a crusader or a spokesperson by nature,…
Walt Whitman: Words for America
Barbara Kerley, Brian Selznick
- 2005 Sibert honor
- Score: 6.55
Dramatic, powerful, & deeply moving, this consummate portrait of Whitman will inspire readers to pick up their pens & open their hearts to humanity.
- 2005 Sibert honor
- Score: 6.55
Yellow blood, silk of steel, skeletons on the outside! These amazing attributes don't belong to comic book characters or alien life forms, but to Earth's biggest and hairiest spiders: tarantulas.
Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing
- 2005 Sibert honor
- Score: 6.55
The story of Sequoyah is the tale of an ordinary man with an extraordinary idea - to create a writing system for the Cherokee Indians and turn his people into a nation of readers and writers. The task he set for himself was daunting.
