Anderson’s Mock Newbery Candidates, 2009 Call us to schedule a Mock Sibert Talk for your students! Jan - Naperville (630) 355-2665 Kathleen - Downers Grove (630) 963-2665

Voting Instructions:

Send me an email request for a voting ballot (jan@anderbook.com), if you don’t already have one.  Vote tallies should be faxed to Anderson’s Bookshop (attn: Barb) by end of day, Thursday, January 22nd, 2009).  Vote tallies should be faxed to Anderson’s Bookshop (attn: Jan) by end of day. Please follow these few guidelines exactly so that we can tally the votes properly.  Ask if you have questions!  It’s important that you include the following information.  It’s easy when you use our voting tallies! 1. The total number of books read for this program by your __ ENTIRE VOTING BODY. 2. The total number of participating voters. 3. Vote tallies should include your top 6 highest scoring titles, along the scores they received. We will announce our overall Mock Sibert winner and honor books before the official Sibert is announced at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Boston the following week.

The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, established by the Association for Library Service to Children in 2001, is awarded annually to the author (including co-authors or author-illustrators) of the most distinguished informational book published in English during the preceding year. The award is named in honor of Robert F. Sibert, the long-time President of Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc. of Jacksonville, Illinois, and is sponsored by the company. ALSC administers the award. Information books are defined as those written and illustrated to present, organize and interpret documentable factual material for children. There are no limitations as to the character of the book, although poetry and traditional literature are not eligible. Honor books may be named; they shall be books that are truly distinguished.

African Critters by Robert B. Haas Ain’t Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry by Scott Nelson As Good As Anybody:  Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Amazing March Toward Freedom by Richard Michelson - Illustrated by Raul Colon A Boy Named Beckoning: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero by Gina Capaldi The Devil on Trial: Witches, Anarchist, Communists, and Terrorists in America’s Courtrooms by Phillip Margulies and Maxine Rosaler Eggs by Marilyn Singer - Illustrated by Emma Stevenson George Washington Carver by Tonya Bolden How We Know What We Know About the Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming by Lynne Cherry I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer by Carole Boston Weatherford In Defiance of Hitler: The Secret Mission of  Varian Fry by Carla Killough McClafferty Lady Liberty: A Biography by Doreen Rappaport - Illustrated by Matt Tavares The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace M. Fleming Manfish: The Story of Jacques Cousteau by Jennifer Berne Monarch and Milkweed by Helen Frost, il Leonid Gore She Touched the World: Laura Bridgman, Deaf-Blind Pioneer by Sally Hobart Alexander and Robert Alexander The Mysterious Universe: Supernovae, Dark Energy and Black Holes by Ellen B. Jackson Painting the Wild Frontier: The Art and Adventures of George Catlin by Susanna Reich Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai by Claire A. Nivola, Science Warriors The Battle Against Invasive Species by Sneed Collard III Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown, and Me by John A. Stokes w/ Lois Wolfe, Ph.D. Three Across: The Great Transatlantic Air Race of 1927 by Norman Finkelstein The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild West by Sid Fleischman We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson What To Do About Alice? How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy by Barbara Kerley by Barbara kerley, Illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham Women Daredevils: Thrills, Chills and Frills by Julie Cummins

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