Annal:2003 Sibert Medal
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Sibert Medal in the year 2003. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler
- 2003 Sibert winner
- Score: 10.53
Many people believe Hitler was the personification of evil. In this intriguing biography, James Cross Giblin penetrates this façade and presents a picture of a complex person — at once a brilliant, influential politician and a deeply disturbed man.
Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929: A Wall Street Journal Book for Children
- 2003 Sibert honor
- Score: 6.53
Over six terrifying, desperate days in October 1929, the fabulous fortune that Americans had built in stocks plunged with a fervor never seen before. At first, the drop seemed like a mistake, a mere glitch in the system. But as the decline gathered steam, so did the destruction.
- 2003 Printz honor
- 2003 Sibert honor
- Score: 12.53
In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded with a ton of hashish from the Virgin Islands to New York City, where he and his partners sold the drug until federal agents caught up with them. For his part in the conspiracy, Gantos was sentenced to serve up to six years in prison.
In Hole in My Life, this prizewinning author of over thirty books for young people confronts the…
Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jane Jordan
- 2003 Sibert honor
- Score: 6.53
One late spring morning the American artist Jackson Pollock began work on the canvas that would ultimately come to be known as Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist). Award-winning authors Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan use this moment as the departure point for a unique picture book about a great painter and the way in which he worked.
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson
Pam Muñoz Ryan, Brian Selznick
- 2003 Sibert honor
- Score: 6.53
Marian Anderson is best known for her historic concert at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939, which drew an integrated crowd of 75,000 people in pre-Civil Rights America. While this momentous event showcased the uniqueness of her voice, the strength of her character, & the struggles of the times in which she lived, it is only part of her story.
