SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books, 2006-2024
Resources for a selection of titles recognized for this award since its inception in 2006 -- recognizing outstanding science writing and illustration
Sponsored by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Subaru
![SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books, 2006-2024](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/images/awards/51.png)
- 2,879 Resources including
- 219 Videos
- 94 Book Readings
- 279 Lesson Plans
- List Analysis Report
Showing 1-48 of 310 book results
![River's Gifts, A: The Mighty Elwha River Reborn](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1541598709.jpg)
A River's Gifts: The Mighty Elwha River Reborn
by Patricia Newman and Natasha Donovan
(Longlist, 2024)
35 Resources6 Awards
![Parrots Over Puerto Rico](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1620140047.jpg)
![Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/68635_hi.jpg)
Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera
by Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmann
(Finalist, 2021)
33 Resources11 Awards
![One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/1467716081.jpg)
One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
by Miranda Paul and Elizabeth Zunon
(Commended, 2016)
31 Resources8 Awards
![Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery That Baffled All of France](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0763663514.jpg)
Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery That Baffled All of France
by Mara Rockliff and Iacopo Bruno
(Commended, 2016)
29 Resources10 Awards
![Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1492642045.jpg)
Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist
by Jess Keating and Marta Álvarez Miguéns
(Finalist, 2018)
29 Resources6 Awards
![Plastic, Ahoy!: Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1467712833.jpg)
Plastic, Ahoy!: Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
by Patricia Newman and Annie Crawley
(Finalist, 2015)
27 Resources3 Awards
![Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1400052173.jpg)
![Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/141695046X.jpg)
![Animals by the Numbers: A Book of Infographics](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0544630920.jpg)
![Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/0547906501.jpg)
Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold
by Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen
(Commended, 2016)
24 Resources10 Awards
![Butterfly for a King: Saving Hawaiʻi's Kamehameha Butterflies](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1620149710.jpg)
Butterfly for a King: Saving Hawaiʻi's Kamehameha Butterflies
by Cindy Trumbore and Susan L. Roth
(Longlist, 2022)
24 Resources5 Awards
![Brilliant Deep, The: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1452133506.jpg)
The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs
by Kate Messner and Matthew Forsythe
(Finalist, 2019)
23 Resources8 Awards
![Mario and the Hole in the Sky: How a Chemist Saved Our Planet](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/65985_hi.jpg)
Mario and the Hole in the Sky: How a Chemist Saved Our Planet
by Elizabeth Rusch and Teresa Martínez
(Winner, 2021)
23 Resources9 Awards
![Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0547443153.jpg)
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
(Winner, 2013)
22 Resources7 Awards
![Whale Fall: Exploring an Ocean-Floor Ecosystem](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0593380606.jpg)
Whale Fall: Exploring an Ocean-Floor Ecosystem
by Melissa Stewart and Rob Dunlavey
(Winner, 2024)
22 Resources5 Awards
![Vulture View](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0805075577.jpg)
![Over and Under the Pond](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1452145423.jpg)
Over and Under the Pond
by Kate Messner and Christopher Silas Neal
(Finalist, 2018)
21 Resources4 Awards
![Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity, The: A Tale of the Genius Ramanujan](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/0763690481.jpg)
The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity: A Tale of the Genius Ramanujan
by Amy Alznauer and Daniel Miyares
(Finalist, 2021)
21 Resources4 Awards
![Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0763645613.jpg)
![Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0761393420.jpg)
Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey
by Loree Griffin Burns and Ellen Harasimowicz
(Finalist, 2015)
20 Resources7 Awards
![When Sue Found Sue: Sue Hendrickson Discovers Her T. Rex](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1419731637.jpg)
When Sue Found Sue: Sue Hendrickson Discovers Her T. Rex
by Toni Buzzeo and Diana Sudyka
(Finalist, 2020)
20 Resources4 Awards
![Hedy Lamarr's Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1454926910.jpg)
Hedy Lamarr's Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor
by Laurie Wallmark and Katy Wu
(Longlist, 2020)
20 Resources4 Awards
![Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0545273226.jpg)
Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas
by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm
(Winner, 2013)
19 Resources4 Awards
![Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0763671029.jpg)
![Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/1452119368.jpg)
Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt
by Kate Messner and Christopher Silas Neal
(Commended, 2016)
19 Resources3 Awards
![Save the Crash-Test Dummies](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1682630226.jpg)
Save the Crash-Test Dummies
by Jennifer Swanson and TeMika Grooms
(Longlist, 2021)
19 Resources2 Awards
![Condor Comeback](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0544816536.jpg)
![Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0618507574.jpg)
![Skull in the Rock, The: How a Scientist, a Boy, and Google Earth Opened a New Window on Human Origins](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1426310102.jpg)
The Skull in the Rock: How a Scientist, a Boy, and Google Earth Opened a New Window on Human Origins
by Lee Berger and Marc Aronson
(Winner, 2014)
18 Resources3 Awards
![Egg: Nature's Perfect Package](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0547959095.jpg)
![Moth: An Evolution Story](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1547600209.jpg)
![Universe in You, The: A Microscopic Journey](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0823450708.jpg)
![Frog Scientist, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/0618717161.jpg)
![Hive Detectives, The: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0547152310.jpg)
The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe
by Loree Griffin Burns and Ellen Harasimowicz
(Winner, 2011)
17 Resources5 Awards
![Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0545577853.jpg)
Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth
by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm
(Finalist, 2014)
17 Resources6 Awards
![How to Swallow a Pig: Step-By-Step Advice from the Animal Kingdom](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0544313658.jpg)
How to Swallow a Pig: Step-By-Step Advice from the Animal Kingdom
by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
(Commended, 2016)
17 Resources4 Awards
![Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1481416006.jpg)
Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor
by Robert Burleigh and Raúl Colón
(Finalist, 2017)
17 Resources7 Awards
![Blood and Germs: The Civil War Battle Against Wounds and Disease](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/74113_hi.jpg)
Blood and Germs: The Civil War Battle Against Wounds and Disease
by Gail Jarrow
(Longlist, 2022)
17 Resources5 Awards
![Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0618581316.jpg)
Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion
(Finalist, 2008)
16 Resources5 Awards
![Sisters & Brothers: Sibling Relationships in the Animal World](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/0618375961.jpg)
Sisters & Brothers: Sibling Relationships in the Animal World
by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
(Winner, 2008)
16 Resources3 Awards
![Magic School Bus and the Climate Challenge, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0590108263.jpg)
The Magic School Bus and the Climate Challenge
by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen
(Winner, 2011)
16 Resources4 Awards
![Tree of Wonder: The Many Marvelous Lives of a Rainforest Tree](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1452112487.jpg)
Tree of Wonder: The Many Marvelous Lives of a Rainforest Tree
by Kate Messner and Simona Mulazzani
(Finalist, 2016)
16 Resources2 Awards
![Champion: The Comeback Tale of the American Chestnut Tree](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1250125235.jpg)
![Path to the Stars: My Journey from Girl Scout to Rocket Scientist](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1328809560.jpg)
Path to the Stars: My Journey from Girl Scout to Rocket Scientist
(Longlist, 2020)
16 Resources2 Awards
![Tracking Tortoises: The Mission to Save a Galápagos Giant](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1541596110.jpg)
Tracking Tortoises: The Mission to Save a Galápagos Giant
by Kate Messner
(Longlist, 2023)
16 Resources3 Awards