The UK’s Royal Society will be awarding a prize to the book for young people that best communicates science. The age range is for under 14-year-olds. Here are the six books on the shortlist:
Big Book of Stars and Planets by Emily Bone
Eye Benders: the science of seeing and believing by Clive Gifford & Anil Seth
How Animals Live by Christiane Dorion
Lift the Flap Questions & Answers About Your Body by Katie Daynes
We’ve Got Your Number by Mukul Patel
What Makes You You? by Gill Arbuthnot
Here are the links I shared on my Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr accounts this week that I think are pretty cool:
CHILDREN’S LIT
12 Irrefutable, Amazing Reasons We Need More Diversity In Books http://buff.ly/1nYx74W #kidlit
Children’s Books. Still an All-White World? | School Library Journal http://buff.ly/1mvy4lI #kidlit
Our kids’ grey matter is neither pink nor blue – when will book publishers realise this? – The Independent http://buff.ly/1mvA6Cm #kidlit
Pioneers in Pigtails: Remembering the First Heroines Who Made Us Mighty| Megan Jean Sovern | http://buff.ly/1myuuCU #kidlit
EBOOKS
Take Your Bookshelf Anywhere: BitLit Gives Readers an eBook Version of a Book They Already Own | BetaKit http://buff.ly/1s2uA7t #ebooks
TEEN READS
Disabled Characters in YA Literature | School Library Journal http://buff.ly/SF7uta #yalit
‘The Fault in Our Stars’ Author John Green on Fandom and His Favorite YA Romances – The Wire http://buff.ly/1qfApma #yalit
What’s Old is New: Recent YA Books with Allusions to Classic Lit | SLJ Spotlight | School Library Journal http://buff.ly/1mvAVv0 #yalit
YA LGBTQ Novels Where the Focus Isn’t Coming Out – Small Avalanches http://buff.ly/1nT5PwD #LGBTQ #yalit
Waking Brain Cells 