For Kids and Their Grown-Ups: Best STEM Books

About Blog Post Mar 7, 2024 by SCLSNJ Staff

For Kids and Their Grown-Ups: Best STEM Books Borrowed by Linda Tripp, collection development librarian The Best STEM Books List was created to provide recommendations to educators, librarians, parents, and guardians for the best children’s books with content focusing on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Here are the winning books published last year, as chosen by STEM educators with the Children’s Book Council.

“Before Colors: Where Pigments and Dyes Come From” by Annette Bay Pimentel
“The Brilliant Calculator: How Mathematician Edith Clarke Helped Electrify America” by Jan Lower
“Building a Dream: How the Boys of Koh Panyee Became Champions” by Darshana Khiani
“Ellen Takes Flight: The Life of Astronaut Ellen Ochoa” by Doreen Rappaport
“Extra Life: The Astonishing Story of How We Doubled Our Lifespan (Young Readers Edition)” by Steven Johnson
“Friend of Numbers: The Life of Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan” by Priya Narayanan
“George Washington's Engineer: How Rufus Putnam Won the Siege of Boston Without Firing a Shot” by Darcy Pattison
“Giraffe Math” by Stephen Swinburne
“A Girl Can Build Anything” by e.E. Charlton-Trujillo and Pat Zietlow Miller
“Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day” by Don Nott
“How to Spacewalk: Step-by-Step With Shuttle Astronauts” by Kathryn D. Sullivan and Michael J. Rosen
“Jerry Changed the Game!: How Engineer Jerry Lawson Revolutionized Video Games Forever” by Don Tate
“Josephine and Her Dishwashing Machine: Josephine Cochrane's Bright Invention Makes a Splash” by Kate Hannigan
“Masked Hero: How Wu Lien-teh Invented the Mask That Ended an Epidemic” by Dr. Shan Woo Liu and Kaili Liu Gormley
“Moving the Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion: A True Story” by by Dave Eggers
“Never Give Up: Dr. Kati Karikó and the Race for the Future of Vaccines” by Debbie Dadey
“Plague-Busters!: Medicine's Battles With History's Deadliest Diseases” by Lindsey Fitzharris and Adrian Teal
“Rooting for Plants: The Unstoppable Charles S. Parker, Black Botanist and Collector” by Janice N. Harrington
“Santiago Saw Things Differently: Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Artist, Doctor, Father of Neuroscience” by Christine Iverson
“Sew Sister: The Untold Story of Jean Wright and NASA's Seamstresses” by Elise Matich
“Transported: 50 Vehicles That Changed the World” by Matt Ralphs

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