Royal Society Prizes for Science Books - Junior Prize

The Junior Prize is given to the best book written for under-14s. The prize is worth ₤10,000 to the winning author and ₤1,000 to each of the shortlisted authors. See the Prize page for more information.

2008 Big Book of Science Things to Make and Do Rebecca Gilpin, Leonie Pratt and illustrator Josephine Thompson.
2007 Can you feel the force? Richard Hammond, published by Dorling Kindersley
2006 The Global Garden Kate Petty, Jennie Maizels and Corina Fletcher
2005 What makes me me Robert Winston
2004 Really Rotten Experiments Nick Arnold, illustrated by Tony De Saulles
2003 DK Guide to the oceans Dr Frances Dippe
2002 DK Guide to the human body Richard Walker
2001 DK Guide to weather Michael Allaby
2000 DK Guide to space Peter Bond
1999 The Usborne complete book of the microscope Kirsteen Rogers
1998 The Kingfisher Book of oceans David Lambert
1997 Horrible Science Series: Blood Bones and body bits and Ugly Bugs Nick Arnold
1996 The World of Weather Chris Maynard
1995 The Most amazing pop-up science book Jay Young
1994 Eyewitness Guide: Evolution Linda Gamlin; Science with Weather Rebecca Heddle and Paul Shipton; The Ultimate Dinosaur book David Lambert
1993 Mighty Microbes Thompson Yardley
1992 The Amazing Voyage of the cucumber sandwich Peter Rowan
1991 Cells are us and cell wars Fran Balkwill and Mic Rolph
1990 Junior: (under-14) Starting Point Science Series:
What makes a flower grow?/What Makes it Rain?/What's Under the Ground?/Where Does Electricity Come From? Susan Mayes
(under-8) The Giant Book of Space Ian Ridpath
1989 The Way things work David Macauley and Neil Ardley
1988 Science Alive - Living Things Roger Kerrod