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2024 book awards

SHORTLIST


The Science Writers and Communicators of Canada (SWCC) is pleased to announce the shortlist of the 2024 SWCC Book Awards.


Youth Category

A Planet Is a Poem
Amanda West Lewis
Oliver Averill 
(Kids Can Press)



Candace Savage

Rachel Hudson

(Greystone Books)



Rachel Poliquin

Rachel Wada

(Tundra Books)



Katherine Hocker
Natasha Donovan

(Candlewick Press)


Full list of entries

We are pleased to announce that over 60 titles entered the SWCC Book Awards competition for 2024! Check out all our amazing entries below. 

    Youth Category

    Scroll down to see all of the entries and click our Goodreads list for this category.

    A Planet Is a Poem

    Amanda West Lewis
    Oliver Averill (Kids Can Press)


    All Consuming: Shop Smarter for the Planet
    Erin Silver
    Suharu Ogawa
    (Orca Book Publishers)

    Candace Savage

    Rachel Wada

    (Greystone Books)



    Animal Minds: What Are They Thinking?
    Dana L. Church
    (Orca Book Publishers)


    Animals Illustrated: Raven
    Monica Ittusardjuat
    Kagan McLeod
    (Inhabit Media)


    Be a Close-up Nature Detective
    Peggy Kochanoff
    (Nimbus Publishing)

    The Bee Mother
    Hetxw’ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson)

    Natasha Donovan

    (HighWater Press)



    Mark Peck

    (Firefly Books)


    Stephanie Gibeault
    Jaclyn Sinquett

    (Candlewick Press (MIT Kids Press))



    Emily Posts
    Tanya Lloyd Kyi

    (Tundra Books)



    Get Outside: How Humans Connect with Nature
    Leah Payne
    (Orca Book Publishers)


    Jason Logan

    (Candlewick Press)




    Candace Savage

    Rachel Hudson

    (Greystone Books)



    Rachel Poliquin

    Rachel Wada

    (Tundra Books)


    Katherine Hocker
    Natasha Donovan

    (Candlewick Press)



    Danielle Daniel

    Matt James

    (Tundra Books)



    Rachel Salt

    (Firefly Books)



    Farah Qaiser and Hajer Nakua
    Natalya Tariq

    (Second Story Press)



    Stephen Aitken

    (Orca Book Publishers)



    Joan Marie Galat

    (Simon & Schuster Canada)



    Stephanie Gibeault

    Raz Latif

    (Owlkids Books)



    Erin Silver
    Hayden Maynard

    (Orca Book Publishers)



    Kim Tait

    (Firefly Books)


    Dana L. Church

    (Scholastic Focus)




    Kallie George

    Sara Gillingham

    (Greystone Books)



    Frances Backhouse

    (Orca Book Publishers)



    Rachelle Delaney
    (Tundra Books)



    Danielle Daniel

    (Tundra Books)



    Monique Polak
    Valéry Goulet

    (Orca Book Publishers)



    Sheryl Normandeau

    (Orca Book Publishers)



    Lauren Wright Vartanian with text from Keltie Thomas

    (Firefly Books)



    Merrie-Ellen Wilcox
    Amanda Key

    (Orca Book Publishers)



    Rosemary Mosco
    Anna Pirolli

    (Tundra Books)



    Monica Franklin and Erin Della Mattia
    Amanda Key

    (Second Story Press)



    Christine D.U. Chung and Salwa Majoka
    (Tundra Books)



    India Desjardins
    Nathalie Dion

    (Orca Book Publishers)



    Yolanda Ridge

    (Orca Book Publishers)



    Rowena Rae
    Paige Stampatori

    (Orca Book Publishers)


    Joan Marie Galat

    (Orca Book Publishers)


    General Category

    Scroll down to see all of the entries and click our Goodreads list for this category.

    A Most Extraordinary Ride: Space, Politics, and the Pursuit of a Canadian Dream
    Marc Garneau
    (Signal)



    All in Her Head: How Gender Bias Harms Women’s Mental Health
    Misty Pratt
    (Greystone Books)




    Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation

    Dr. Jen Gunter

    (Random House Canada)



    The Carbon Tax Question: Clarifying Canada’s Most Consequential Policy Debate
    Thomas F. Pedersen
    (Harbour Publishing)



    Climate Hope: Stories of Action in an Age of Global Crisis
    David Geselbracht
    (Douglas & McIntyre)




    The Essence of Invention: Medicine and the Joy of Creativity
    Dr. Kieran Murphy
    (Dundurn Press Ltd.)




    The Exclusion Effect: How the Sciences Discourage Girls & Women & What to do about it
    Kirsty Duncan
    (Sutherland House Books)



    Fur, Fleas, and Flukes: The Fascinating World of Parasites
    Michael Stock

    (Aevo UTP)




    Going to Seed: Essays on Idleness, Nature, and Sustainable Work
    Kate Neville
    (University of Regina Press )




    Health for All: A Doctor's Prescription for a Healthier Canada
    Jane Philpott

    (Signal)





    The Honey Trap: How the Good Intentions of Urban Beekeepers Risk Ecological Disaster
     Dana L. Church

    (Sutherland House Books)



    I Heard There Was A Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
    Daniel J. Levitin
    (Allen Lane Canada)




    Intervention Earth: Life-Saving Ideas from the World's Climate Engineers
    Gwynne Dyer

    (Random House Canada)



    Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey toward Personal and Ecological Healing
    Dr. Jennifer Grenz
    (Knopf Canada)



    Mind the Science: Saving your Mental Health from the Wellness Industry

    Jonathan N. Stea, PhD
    (Random House Canada)



    Orangutans: Their History, Natural History and Conservation
    Ronald Orenstein
    (Firefly Books)




    Our Green Heart: The Soul and Science of Forests
    Diana Beresford-Kroeger
    (Random House Canada)




    Rough Magic: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder
    Miranda Newman
    (McClelland & Stewart)




    Runaway Climate: What the Geological Past Can Tell Us about the Coming Climate Change Catastrophe
    Steven Earle
    (New Society Publishers)



    Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water
    Amorina Kingdon
    (Crown Publishing (Penguin Random House))




    The Story of Upfront Carbon: How a Life of Just Enough Offers a Way Out of the Climate Crisis
    Lloyd Alter
    (New Society Publishers)



    Superfoods, Silkworms, and Spandex

    Dr. Joe Schwarcz

    (ECW Press)




    Warming Up: How Climate Change is Changing Sports
    Madeleine Orr
    (Bloomsbury Sigma)



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