Science Book a Day

2019 Environment Award for Children’s Literature Shortlist Announced

2019 Environment Award for Children’s Literature Shortlist Announced

The following is the shortlist for the EACL awards, supported by The Wilderness Society.

Please click here for more information. The winners will be announced in Melbourne.

Picture fiction: More and More and More by Ian Mutch The All New Must Have Orange 430 by Michael Speechley When Water Lost Her Way by Meg Humphrys The Great…

More and More and More

More and More and More, by Ian Mutch

Synopsis: Henry Harper loves collecting. One day, while out finding treasures, he discovers Kate. She loves to collect, too! Together Henry and Kate amass an amazing amount of stuff before discovering that the most valuable thing they’ve ever found is each other.

Published: 2018 | ISBN: 9781925591545 | Ages: 2-5 years

Author’s Homepage: http://www.ianmutch.com

Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries, by Safi Bahcall

Synopsis: What do James Bond and Lipitor have in common? What can we learn about human nature and world history from a glass of water?

In Loonshots, physicist and entrepreneur Safi Bahcall reveals a surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behavior that challenges…

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, by Naomi Klein

Synopsis: The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.

In short, either we embrace radical…

Picturing Apollo 11: Rare Views and Undiscovered Moments

Picturing Apollo 11: Rare Views and Undiscovered Moments, by JL Pickering and John Bisney

Synopsis: Picturing Apollo 11 is an unprecedented photographic history of the space mission that defined an era. Through a wealth of unpublicized and recently discovered images, this book presents new and rarely-seen views of the people, places, and events involved in the pioneering first moon landing of…

One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon

One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon, by Charles Fishman

Synopsis: The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic mission to reach the moon.

President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group was more…

Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight

Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight, by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm

Synopsis: On a summer night in 1969, two men climbed down a ladder onto a sea of dust at the edge of an ancient dream. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on lunar soil, the moon ceased to be a place of mystery and myth. It became a destination.

Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of that journey, Moonboundtel…

First on the Moon: The Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Experience

First on the Moon: The Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Experience, by Rod Pyle

(Alternate title: First to the moon)

Synopsis: In honor of the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking Apollo 11 mission, this lavishly illustrated book—featuring stunning photographs and many rarely seen images and documents—tells the incredible story of the first men on the Moon.

Acclaimed science author Rod Pyle (Mission…

Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys

Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys, by Michael Collins

Synopsis: The years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done nothing to alter the fundamental wonder of the event: man reaching the moon remains one of the great events–technical and spiritual–of our lifetime.

In Carrying the Fire,…

American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race

American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race, by Douglas Brinkley

Synopsis: As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy’s inspiring challenge, and America’s race to the moon.

“We choose to go to the Moon in this…

Apollo 11: The Inside Story

Apollo 11: The Inside Story, by David Whitehouse

Synopsis: Informed by extensive interviews with astronauts such Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Gene Cernan, David Scott, John Young, Alan Shepard, Charlie Duke, Al Bean, Gordon Cooper, Al Worden, Walt Cunningham, Tom Stafford, Dick Gordon, John Glenn, Pete Conrad, Edgar Mitchel, James Irwin, Stu Roosa, Ron Evans, Deke Slayton, Wally Schirra, as well…

I’m back!

I’m back!

You may have noticed my absence. This has been mainly because of an intense marking round at work and the completion of my Masters (yay!). This means I will have more time in the second half of the year.

That being said, the next month is going to be intense with the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. So we’ll be sharing a new book about our voyage to the moon for the next two…

Dispatches From Planet 3 – Thirty-two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, The Milky Way, and Beyond

Dispatches From Planet 3 – Thirty-two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, The Milky Way, and Beyond, by Marcia Bartusiak

Synopsis: An award-winning science writer presents a captivating collection of cosmological essays for the armchair astronomer.

The galaxy, the multiverse, and the history of astronomy are explored in this engaging compilation of cosmological tales by multiple-award-winning…

Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?

Dark Emu, by Bruce Pascoe

(Alternative Title: Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?)

Synopsis: History has portrayed Australia’s First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong.

In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people across the continent were…

Machines Like Me, by Ian McEwan

Synopsis: Our foremost storyteller returns with an audacious new novel, Machines Like Me.

Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding.

Machines Like Me occurs in an…

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, by Richard H Thaler, Cass R Sunstein

Synopsis: Every day we make choices—about what to buy or eat, about financial investments or our children’s health and education, even about the causes we champion or the planet itself. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. Nudge is about how we make these choices and how we can make better…

You are Stardust, by Elin Kelsey and illustrated by Soyeon Kim

Synopsis: You Are Stardust begins by introducing the idea that every tiny atom in our bodies came from a star that exploded long before we were born. From its opening pages, the book suggests that we are intimately connected to the natural world; it compares the way we learn to speak to the way baby birds learn to sing, and the…