Sally Walker

Sibert Medal winner Sally M. Walker Secrets of a Civil War Submarine is the author of more than 60 nonfiction books. Sinking the Sultana received Virginia's Jefferson Cup Award for history. Written in Bone was a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award finalist. Champion: The Comeback Tale of the American Chestnut was an Orbis Pictus Honor Book. Walker's many other awards include ALA Notables, Orbis Pictus Honor Book, and NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book. A number of her books...See more

Sibert Medal winner Sally M. Walker Secrets of a Civil War Submarine is the author of more than 60 nonfiction books. Sinking the Sultana received Virginia's Jefferson Cup Award for history. Written in Bone was a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award finalist. Champion: The Comeback Tale of the American Chestnut was an Orbis Pictus Honor Book. Walker's many other awards include ALA Notables, Orbis Pictus Honor Book, and NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book. A number of her books have been finalists on the Master List for many states' Young Reader Awards. Walker and Jonathan D. Voss previously collaborated on Winnie: The True Story of the Bear that Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh , which won Arizona's Grand Canyon Reader Award and New York's Charlotte Award. See less