Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2021
Resources for a selection of titles recommended since 2005 -- recognizing outstanding science trade books
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Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
by Chris Barton and Don Tate
(Commended, 2017)
31 Resources8 Awards
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night
by Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen
(Commended, 2011)
27 Resources8 Awards
Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere
by Barb Rosenstock and Katherine Roy
(Commended, 2019)
26 Resources10 Awards
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13
by Helaine Becker and Dow Phumiruk
(Commended, 2019)
25 Resources7 Awards
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
by Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop
(Commended, 2011)
24 Resources7 Awards
The Animal Book: A Collection of the Fastest, Fiercest, Toughest ...
(Commended, 2014)
23 Resources7 Awards
Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla
by Katherine Applegate and G. Brian Karas
(Commended, 2015)
23 Resources6 Awards
Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine
by Laurie Wallmark and April Chu
(Commended, 2016)
23 Resources5 Awards
Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist
by Jess Keating and Marta Álvarez Miguéns
(Winner, 2018)
23 Resources4 Awards
Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands
(Commended, 2015)
22 Resources7 Awards
Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain
by Cheryl Bardoe and Barbara McClintock
(Commended, 2019)
22 Resources10 Awards
The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs
by Kate Messner and Matthew Forsythe
(Commended, 2019)
21 Resources8 Awards
Mario and the Hole in the Sky: How a Chemist Saved Our Planet
by Elizabeth Rusch and Teresa Martinez
(Commended, 2020)
21 Resources10 Awards
Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea
by Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop
(Commended, 2007)
20 Resources5 Awards
What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors
by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld, Ben Boos, and A.G. Ford
(Commended, 2013)
19 Resources2 Awards
Squirrels Leap, Squirrels Sleep
by April Pulley Sayre and Steve Jenkins
(Commended, 2017)
19 Resources2 Awards
Hedy Lamarr's Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor
by Laurie Wallmark and Katy Wu
(Commended, 2020)
19 Resources4 Awards
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
(Commended, 2013)
18 Resources6 Awards
How to Swallow a Pig: Step-By-Step Advice from the Animal Kingdom
by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
(Commended, 2016)
18 Resources4 Awards
Nine Months: Before a Baby Is Born
by Miranda Paul and Jason Chin
(Commended, 2020)
18 Resources5 Awards
Instructions Not Included: How a Team of Women Coded the Future
by Tami Lewis Brown, Debbie Loren Dunn, and Chelsea Beck
(Commended, 2020)
18 Resources6 Awards
Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems
by Joyce Sidman and Beckie Prange
(Commended, 2006)
17 Resources7 Awards
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
(Commended, 2010)
17 Resources5 Awards
The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe
by Loree Griffin Burns and Ellen Harasimowicz
(Commended, 2011)
17 Resources5 Awards
Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors
by Joyce Sidman and Beckie Prange
(Commended, 2011)
17 Resources6 Awards
How to Clean a Hippopotamus: A Look at Unusual Animal Partnerships
by Robin Page and Steve Jenkins
(Commended, 2011)
17 Resources4 Awards
Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa's Fastest Cat
by Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop
(Commended, 2015)
17 Resources3 Awards
Egg: Nature's Perfect Package
by Robin Page and Steve Jenkins
(Commended, 2016)
17 Resources4 Awards
All in a Drop: How Antony Van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World
by Lori Alexander and Vivien Mildenberger
(Commended, 2020)
17 Resources7 Awards
A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon
by Suzanne Slade and Veronica Miller Jamison
(Commended, 2020)
17 Resources4 Awards
The Inventor's Secret: What Thomas Edison Told Henry Ford
by Suzanne Slade and Jennifer Black Reinhardt
(Commended, 2016)
16 Resources3 Awards