Mock Sibert Winner 2025: We have a tie!

The American Library Association awards the Sibert Medal to the creators of "the most distinguished informational book for children published in the U.S. in English." This year, for the first time, we had a tie between two of the four finalists for the Garden City Mock Sibert:

Hello, I'm a Sloth, written by Hayley Rocco and illustrated by John Rocco

Erno Rubik and His Magic Cube, written by Kerry Aradhya and illustrated by Kara Kramer

Second-graders shared their reasons for their choices, as well as some of the facts they learned: 

• Sloths can swim in the water.
• I like animals.
• Sloths are cute.
• I liked the pictures.
• My favorite thing is they are slow climbers.
• Sloths are so cute and brave.
• Sloths go down the tree once a week to poop.
• They can fall 100 feet out of a tree to the ground.
• They have green hair.
• Sloths hang upside down to live.
• It tells us about facts we might never have heard.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I like Rubik's Cubes.
• This book gave us the most information.
• He never gave up.
• Erno Rubik grew up in Hungary.
• He used rubber bands for his first cube.
• His job was a math teacher.
• It is cool.
• He studied art and architecture.
• He had a square head in the pictures.
• It is fun to play.
• He loved puzzles.