Silver Birch shortlists announced!

So pleased to have Monster Science nominated for the Silver Birch Award!

Lane Anderson Award for Science Writing Shortlists Announced!

The finalists for the 2016 Lane Anderson Awards, honouring Canada’s best science writing with $10,000 in each of two age categories, have been revealed. And woohoo! Monster Science is on it!

Congrats to all the nominees. Here's thecomplete list: 

Young Readers

• Helaine Becker and Phil McAndrew, ill., Monster Science: Could Monsters Survive (and Thrive!) in the Real World? (Kids Can Press)
• Anne Innis Dagg, 5 Giraffes (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
• Claire Eamer and Marie-Ève Tremblay, ill., Inside Your Insides: A Guide to the Microbes That Call You Home (Kids Can Press)

Adult Readers

• Caroline Fox, At Sea With the Marine Birds of the Raincoast (Rocky Mountain Books)
• Robert William Sandford, North America in the Anthropocene: An RMB Manifesto (RMB)
• Tim Falconer, Bad Singer: The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music (House of Anansi Press)
• Stephen Le, 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today (HarperCollins)

The winners will be announced at a ceremony in September.