AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books Longlists
AAAS and Subaru are pleased to announce the longlist for the 2019 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize. The prize, sponsored by Subaru, has been celebrating outstanding science writing and illustration for all age groups since 2005. Awards are presented in five categories: Children’s Science Picture Book, Middle Grades Science Book, Young Adult Science Book, and Hands-On Science Book. Beyond honoring these books with an award, AAAS and Subaru partner to bring them into the community. Through the #SubaruLovesLearning initiative, the finalists and winning books are donated to schools all over the country. Additionally, we creates free K-12 teaching materials based on the books. AAAS believe that, through good science books, this generation, and the next, will have a better understanding and appreciation of science.
Longlist for 2019 Children's Science Picture Book Award
The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the  World's Coral Reefs, by Kate Messner. Illustrated by Matthew Forsythe. Chronicle Books, 2018.
The Great Rhino Rescue: Saving the Southern White Rhinos, by Sandra Markle. Millbrook Press, 2018.
A House in the Sky: And Other Uncommon Animal Homes, by Steve Jenkins. Illustrated by Robbin Gourley. Charlesbridge, 2018.
Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea: How a Science Project Helps One Family and the Planet, by Elizabeth Suneby. Illustrated by Rebecca Green. Kids Can Press, 2018.
It Starts with a Seed: Watch a Tiny Seed Grow into a Wildlife Wonderland, by Laura Knowles. Illustrated by Jennie Webber. Quarto Group/words & pictures, 2017.
Living Things and Nonliving Things: A Compare and Contrast Book, by Kevin Kurtz. Arbordale Publishing, 2017.
Many: The Diversity of Life on Earth, by Nicola Davies. Illustrated by Emily Sutton. Candlewick, 2017. Â
What Do They Do with All That Poo?, by Jane Kurtz. Illustrated by Allison Black. Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Longlist for 2019 Middle Grades Science Book AwardÂ
Champion: The Comeback Tale of the American Chestnut Tree, by Sally M. Walker. Henry Holt and Company, 2018.
Impact! Asteroids and the Science of Saving the World, by Elizabeth Rusch. Photographs by Karin Anderson. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
Itch! Everything You Didn't Want to Know About What Makes You Scratch, by Anita Sanchez. Illustrations by Gilbert Ford. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
My First Book of Quantum Physics, by Sheddad Kaid-Salah Ferrón. Illustrations by Eduard Altarriba. Button Books, 2018.
Rewilding: Giving Nature a Second Chance, by Jane Drake and Ann Love. Annick Press, 2017.
She Found Fossils, by Maria Eugenia Leone Gold and Abagael Rosemary West. Illustrations by Amy J. Gardiner. CreateSpace, 2017. [Also available in Spanish.]
Trash Revolution: Breaking the Waste Cycle, by Erica Fyvie. Illustrations by Bill Slavin. Kids Can Press, 2018.
The longlists for the Hands-on and YA categories will be announced later this week. Learn more here.
