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Nominees for Children & Youth Authors: P - Z

Books are listed alphabetically by author.

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Author
Title
Nomination
Janice Parker The Science of Birds Appraisal
Janice Parker The Science of Insects Appraisal
SLJ 1/2000
Janice Parker The Science of Water Appraisal
Steve Parker Human Body SLJ 1/1996
Steve Parker Mammal Morrison 1989
Naomi Pasachoff Niels Bohr: Physicist and Humanitarian NSTA

Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Big Cats Staff

Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Life in a Grassland NSTA: OSTB 2003
Dorothy Hinshaw Patent Plants on the Trail with Lewis and Clark NSTA: OSTB 2004

Wendy Pfeffer
Wiggling Worms at Work Booklist 2/15/04
Glen Phelan Double Helix: The Quest to Uncover the Structure of DNA NSTA 2007
Richard Phillips Numbers: Facts, Figures, and Fiction Morrison 1997

Jim Pipe
What Does a Wheel Do?: Projects About Rolling and Sliding NSTA: OSTB 2003
Richard Platt Forensics NSTA: OSTB 2006
Richard Platt Smithsonian Visual Timeline of Inventions Morrison 1995

Mia Posada
Ladybugs: Red, Fiery,
and Bright
NSTA: OSTB 2003
Jean Potter Science in Seconds at the Beach: With Activities for Ponds, Lakes and Rivers Science Activites, Spring 2000
Laurence Pringle Batman: Exploring the World of Bats Morrison 1991
Laurence Pringle Bats!: Strange and Wonderful Staff
Laurence Pringle Coral Reefs: Earth's Undersea Treasures Hornbook 11/12 1995
SLJ 10/1995
Laurence Pringle Elephant Woman: Cynthia Moss Explores the World of Elephants
NSTA: OSTB 1998
Laurence Pringle Everybody Has A Bellybutton: Your Life Before You Were Born NSTA: OSTB 1998
Laurence Pringle Hearing SLJ 3/2000
Laurence Pringle Sight Staff
Laurence Pringle Smell Appraisal
SLJ 3/2000
Laurence Pringle Snakes! Strange and Wondeful NSTA
Laurence Pringle Taste Appraisal
SLJ 3/2000
Kenneth G. Rainis Forgery: Crime-Solving Science Experiments SB&F 1/2007
Deborah Kogan Ray The Flower Hunter:
William Bartram, America's First Naturalist
NSTA
Pat Relf with the Sue Science Team of the Field Museum A Dinosaur Named Sue: The Story of the Colossal Fossil: The World's Most Complex T. Rex NSTA: OSTB 2001

Andrew C. Revkin
The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World SLJ 6/2006

Joe Rhatigan & Rain Newcomb
Out-of-This-World Astronomy:
50 Amazing Activities & Projects
SLJ 4/2004
Edward Ricciuti &
Margaret W. Carruthers
National Audubon Society First Field Guide SLJ 8/1998
Sally Ride
Exploring Our Solar System Booklist 12/01/03
Sally Ride &
Tam O'Shaugnessy
The Mystery of Mars Hornbook 3/4 2000
SLJ 3/2000
Sally Ride &
Tam O'Shaugnessy
The Third Planet Hornbook 7/8 1994
Peggy Rismiller The Echidna:
Australia's Enigma
Appraisal, Booklist 8/1999, SB&F

Mary Roach
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Young Adult / Teen Selection by Staff
Ken Robbins Autumn Leaves NSTA: OSTB 1999
Andrew Robinson The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs, and Pictograms Morrison 1996
Anne Rockwell Honey in a Hive NSTA:OSTB 2006
Kirsteen Rogers The Usborne Complete Book of the Microscope SLJ 7/1999

Trudee Romanek
Squirt!: The Most Interesting Book You'll Ever Read About Blood Book List 5/15/06
Michael Elsohn Ross Cricketology Morrison 1996
Rebecca Rupp Weather! SLJ 5/04
Pete Salmansohn as told by Stephen W. Kress Project Puffin: How We Brought Puffins Back to Egg Rock NSTA: OSTB 1998
Pete Salmansohn &
Stephen W. Kress
Saving Birds NSTA: OSTB 2004
Joel Sartore
Face to Face with Grizzlies Staff
April Pulley Sayre

Secrets of Sound: Studying the Calls and Sounds of Whales, Elephants, and Birds

Booklist 12/01/03
April Pulley Sayre Vulture View Staff

Robin Scagell
Children's Night Sky Atlas Jane Crichton, Hawthorne School Librarian
Scholastic Reference

Scholastic Atlas of Weather

NSTA: OSTB 2004
Anne Schraff Dr. Charles Drew:
Blood Bank Innovator
NSTA
New 3/19/2008
Janet Schulman
Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City SLJ 1/ 2008
Elaine Scott Adventure in Space: The Flight to Fix the Hubble SLJ 12/1995
Elaine Scott Close Encounters: Exploring the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope NSTA: OSTB 1999
Michael Scott Ecology NSTA: OSTB 1997
Lauri Seidlitz The Science of Animals Appraisal
David Sheldon Barnum Brown:
Dinosaur Hunter
Booklist 12/01/2006
Joyce Sidman Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow School Library Journal 10/2006

Joyce Sidman
Song of the Waterboatman and Other Pond Poems Booklist Top Ten Sci-Tech Books for Youth
12/2005
Seymour Simon Eyes and Ears NSTA: OSTB 2004
Seymour Simon The Heart: Our Circulatory System Science Library Journal, NSTA: OSTB 1977

Seymour Simon
The Moon

Science Library Journal,
NSTA: OSTB 2004

Seymour Simon Muscles: Our Muscular System NSTA: OSTB 1999
Marilyn Singer Venom Staff

Marilyn Singer
What Stinks? Booklist 5/1/2006, Staff
Peter Sís The Tree of Life: A Book Depicting the Life of Charles Darwin: Naturalist, Geologist & Thinker NSTA
Alexandra Siy Sneeze! Staff
Gloria Skurzynski Are We Alone? Scientists Search for Life in Space NSTA: OSTB 2005
Gloria Skurzynski Waves: The Electromagnetic Universe NSTA: OSTB 1997
Christopher Sloan How Dinosaurs Took Flight: The Fossils, the Science, What We Think We Know, and the Mysteries Yet Unsolved NSTA:OSTB 2006

Christopher Sloan
The Human Story: Our Evolution from Prehistoric Ancestors to Today Science Library Journal 3/04, NSTA:OSTB 2004

Christopher Sloan
SuperCroc and the Origin of Crocodiles NSTA: OSTB 2003
Philip Steele
Marie Curie: The Woman Who Changed the Course of Science NSTA 2007
Darlene R. Stille
Erosion: How Land Forms, How it Changes NSTA: OSTB 2006
George Sullivan
Built to Last: Building America's Amazing Bridges, Dams, Tunnels, and Skyscapers NSTA/CBC: OSTB
SLJ 3/2006
David Suzuki Looking at Insects Staff
Diane Swanson Nibbling on Einstein's Brain: the Good, the Bad and the Bogus in Science SLJ 11/2001
Stephen R. Swinburne The Woods Scientist NSTA
Sally Tagholm The Barn Owl Andrew Cook, patron;
Jane Crichton
Shelley Tanaka Discovering the Iceman: What Was it Like to Find a 5,300-Year-Old Mummy? SLJ 9/1998
Shelley Tanaka Graveyards of the Dinosaurs: What it is Like to Discover Prehistoric Creatures Staff

Shelley Tanaka
Mummies: The Newest, Coolest & Creepiest From Around the World Booklist 12/2005
Starred review
Shelley Tanaka New Dinos: The Latest Finds! The Coolest Dinosaur Discoveries NSTA
Malcolm Tait Going, Going, Gone? Animals and Plants on the Brink of Extinction and How You Can Help

Young Adult / Teen selection by Staff
Of interest to adults and precious youth as well.

Karen Taschek Death Stars, Weird Galaxies, and a Quasar-Spangled Universe: The Discoveries of a Very Large Array Telescope Young Adult / Teen selection by Staff
John Hudson Tiner Inclined Planes SB&F Best Books 2003
John Hudson Tiner Levers SB&F Best Books 2003
John Hudson Tiner Pulleys SB&F Best Books 2003
John Hudson Tiner Wheels & Axles SB&F Best Books 2003

Yukihisa Tokuda
I'm a Pill Bug Book List 4/01/2006 starred review
New 5/5/2008
Pamela S. Turner
Life on Earth - and Beyond: An Astronbiologist's Quest

Booklist 2/2008,
School Library Journal 2/08

Susan J. Tweit City Foxes NSTA: OSTB 1998
Piero Ventura Darwin: Nature Reinterpreted Staff
Gregory L. Vogt Deep Space Astronomy Staff
Ginger Wadsworth
Benjamin Banneker: Pinoeering Scientist NSTA: OSTB 2004/05
Richard Walker DK Guide to the Human Body NSTA: OSTB 2002
Richard Walker Genes & DNA NSTA
Sally M. Walker Sea Horses NSTA: OSTB 2004

Sally M. Walker
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving Mysteries of the H.L.Hunley Booklist Top Ten Sci-Tech Books for Youth
12/2005
Young Adult / Teen Selection by Staff
Sophie Webb Looking for Seabirds: Journal From an Alaskan Voyage SLJ 5/04

Doug Wechsler

Frog Heaven:
Ecology of a Vernal Pool
Booklist 11/1/06
Robert E. Wells Is the Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? Morrison 1994
Rich Wilson Racing a Ghost Ship: The Incredible Journey of Great American II Morrison 1997
Yvonne Winer Birds Build Nests NSTA: OSTB 2003
Gretchen Woelfle The Wind at Work: An Activity Guide to Windmills SLJ 10/1997
Kathy Wollard How Come?: Planet Earth Appraisal
SLJ 5/2000
Virginia Wright-Frierson An Island Scrapbook: Dawn to Dusk on a Barrier Island NSTA 1998
Susi Trautmann Wunsch The Adventures of Sojourner: The Mission to Mars that Thrilled the World SLJ 2/1999
Roger Yepsen Humanpower: Cars, Planes, and Boats with Muscles for Motors Morrison 1992
YES Magazine Editors Fantastic Feats and Failures NSTA
Jane Yolen Welcome to the Ice House NSTA: OSTB 1999
Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld What is the World Made Of?: All About Solids, Liquids, and Gases Hornbook 9/10 1998
Robert Winston &
Lori Oliwenstein
Superhuman: The Awesome Power Within Young Adult / Teen Selection by Staff
Shannon Zemlicka From Egg to Butterfly NSTA: OSTB 2004

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Cornerstones of Science

Last updated July 3, 2008