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.

Eureka!

Monster Science (Kids Can Press) has just received a Silver Eureka Award from the California Reading Association. 

I'm as happy as a zombie with a fresh brain.

Back to School Fun!

Do you find back to school scary? It's not as scary as  Monster Science, new from Kids Can Press this fall!

You'll meet six of the world's most fearsome creatures and put them under the microscope to determine fact from fiction. Could monsters really exist? What science might make that possible? WARNING: what you discover might surprise - and even terrify - you!

Consider these hair-raising possibilities:

* Can you stitch together body parts and z-z-zap them to life, like Dr. Frankenstein? Shocking!* Can you drink blood and live forever, like Dracula? Gulp.* Can you raise the dead and start a zombie apocalypse? Eek!* Can you transform into a werewolf under the light of the full moon? Arooo!
Monster Science tackles these questions and more, giving you the information you need to unlock dangerous scientific secrets. Read on, if you dare. And then take the quiz at the end of each chapter to see how you would fare as a mad scientist. Mwa ha ha!

Read the reviews here.