Bromley High Junior School pupils have been selected to form the judging panel for The Royal Society, to choose the winner of the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize 2022.
Over the coming weeks, our judges will be reading and reviewing the shortlist of six books and sharing their views.
The Young People’s Book Prize aims to promote literacy in young people and to inspire them to read about science. It also supports the writing of excellent, accessible STEM books for under 14s.
A shortlisting panel made up of scientists, an actor, a teacher, and children’s authors has whittled down dozens of titles to six of the year’s most fascinating books:
- Beetles for Breakfast…and Other Weird and Wonderful Ways to Save The Planet by Madeleine Finlay, illustrated by Jisu Choi
- Fantastically Great Women Scientists and Their Stories by Kate Pankhurst
- Fourteen Wolves by Catherine Barr, illustrated by Jenni Desmond
- How Was That Built? by Roma Agrawal, illustrated by Katie Hickey
- If the World Were 100 People by Jackie McCann, illustrated by Aaron Cushley
- Microbe Wars by Gill Arbuthnott, illustrated by Marianna Madriz