2018 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prizes Longlist Announced
Science Books & Films is pleased to announce the titles that have been selected for the longlist for the 2018 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prizes for Excellence in Science Books.
16 October 2017
AAAS and Subaru of America, Inc. are proud to announce the books that were selected for the longlist of the 2018 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prizes for Excellence in Science Books. The Prizes celebrate outstanding science writing and illustration for children and young adults and are meant to encourage the writing and publishing of high-quality science books for all ages. AAAS believes that, through good science books, this generation, and the next, will have a better understanding and appreciation of science.
Our judges have been busy reading the many books submitted for the prize over the past six months and they have narrowed down those books to a longlist of books. The finalists will be announced in November and the winners will be announced in January 2018.
This year marks the 12th year that AAAS has partnered with Subaru to choose outstanding science books for children, middle schoolers, and young adults. Prizes are awarded in these categories:
- Children’s Science Picture Book
- Middle Grade Science Book
- Young Adult Science Book
- Hands-On Science Book
The Prizes will be bestowed at the 183rd AAAS Annual Meeting in Austin, TX, 15-19 February 2018.
YOUNG ADULT SCIENCE BOOKS
Jon Willis, All These Worlds Are Yours: The Scientific Search for Alien Life
Yale University Press
Alexandra Horowitz, Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell
Simon & Schuster
Sam Kean, Caesar’s Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
Little, Brown and Company
James T. Costa, Darwin’s Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
W.W. Norton & Co.
McKay Jenkins, Food Fight: GMOs and the Future of the American Diet
Penguin Random House
Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut, How to Tame a Fox (And Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
University of Chicago Press
Anurag Agrawal, Monarchs and Milkweed: A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution
Princeton University Press
Joel Sartore, Photo Ark: One Man's Quest to Document the World's Animals
National Geographic Society
Kathryn Miles, Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
Penguin Random House
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour
Princeton University Press
MIDDLE GRADE SCIENCE BOOKS
Steve Jenkins, Animals by the Numbers: A Book of Animal Infographics
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Amy Cherrix, Eye of the Storm: NASA, Drones, and the Race to Crack the Hurricane Code
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Dr. Dave Williams and Loredana Cunti, Go for Lift Off! How to Train Like an Astronaut
Annick Press
Claire Eamer, Inside Your Insides: A Guide to the Microbes That Call You Home
Kids Can Press
Patricia Newman, Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem
Millbrook Press
Dr. Dave Williams and Loredana Cunti, To Burp or Not to Burp: A Guide to Your Body in Space
Annick Press
Alexandra Siy, Voyager’s Greatest Hits: The Epic Trek to Interstellar Space
Charlesbridge Publishing
Claire Eamer, What a Waste!: Where Does Garbage Go?
Annick Press
CHILDREN'S SCIENCE PICTURE BOOKS
Deborah Lee Rose and Jane Veltkamp, Beauty and the Beak: How Science, Technology, and a 3D-Printed Beak Rescued a Bald Eagle
Persnickety Press
Doug Wechsler, The Hidden Life of a Toad
Charlesbridge Publishing
Laura Purdie Salas (author), Jaime Kim (illustrator), If You Were the Moon
Millbrook Press
Paul Meisel, My Awesome Summer by P. Mantis
Holiday House
Jonathan London (author), Meilo So (illustrator), Otters Love to Play
Candlewick Press
Kate Messner (author) Christopher Silas Neal (illustrator), Over and Under the Pond
Chronicle Books
Eileen Christelow, Robins! How They Grow Up
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Jess Keating (author) Marta Alvarez Miguens (illustrator), Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
HANDS-ON SCIENCE BOOKS
Melissa Stewart (author), Andre Ceolin (illustrator), Droughts
HarperCollins
David A. Adler (author) Anna Raff (illustrator), Magnets Push, Magnets Pull
Holiday House
Sarah Wassner Flynn, This Book Stinks: Gross Garbage, Rotten Rubbish, and the Science of Trash
National Geographic Children’s Books
Karen Romano Young, Try This! 50 Fun & Safe Experiments for the Mad Scientist in You
National Geographic Children’s Books