15 June 2006
Aventis Prizes for Science Books
The Royal Society’s Aventis Prizes for Science Books are annual awards, which celebrate the very best in popular science writing for adults and children. Previous winners include Bill Bryson, Stephen Hawking and Robert Winston.
There are two categories: The Junior Prize, which is given to the best book written for under-14s, and the General Prize, for the best book written for a more general readership. Each prize is worth £10,000 to the winning author and £1,000 to the author of each shortlisted book.
Winners
Junior Prize The Global Garden by Kate Petty, Jennie Maizels, Corina Fletcher (Eden Project, Random House)
General Prize Electric Universe: how electricity switched on the modern world by David Bodanis (Little, Brown Book Group)
For more details, including the shortlists, visit
http://www.sciencebookprizes.com
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=2418
There are two categories: The Junior Prize, which is given to the best book written for under-14s, and the General Prize, for the best book written for a more general readership. Each prize is worth £10,000 to the winning author and £1,000 to the author of each shortlisted book.
Winners
Junior Prize The Global Garden by Kate Petty, Jennie Maizels, Corina Fletcher (Eden Project, Random House)
General Prize Electric Universe: how electricity switched on the modern world by David Bodanis (Little, Brown Book Group)
For more details, including the shortlists, visit
http://www.sciencebookprizes.com
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=2418
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