Cook Prize, 2012-2024
Resources for the titles recognized by this award since its inception in 2012 -- honoring the best science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) picture book
Sponsored by Bank Street College of Education
![Cook Prize, 2012-2024](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/images/awards/28.png)
- 805 Resources including
- 77 Videos
- 26 Book Readings
- 88 Lesson Plans
- List Analysis Report
Showing 1-48 of 51 book results
![Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1580892973.jpg)
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
by Chris Barton and Don Tate
(Honor, 2017)
38 Resources11 Awards
![Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0547199457.jpg)
Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade
(Winner, 2012)
33 Resources12 Awards
![Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1250137527.jpg)
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13
by Helaine Becker and Dow Phumiruk
(Winner, 2019)
33 Resources9 Awards
![Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/68635_hi.jpg)
Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera
by Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmann
(Honor, 2021)
33 Resources11 Awards
![Great Stink, The: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1534449299.jpg)
The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem
by Colleen Paeff and Nancy Carpenter
(Silver Honor, 2022)
32 Resources8 Awards
![Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery That Baffled All of France](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0763663514.jpg)
Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery That Baffled All of France
by Mara Rockliff and Iacopo Bruno
(Winner, 2016)
29 Resources10 Awards
![Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0316278203.jpg)
Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain
by Cheryl Bardoe and Barbara McClintock
(Honor, 2019)
26 Resources11 Awards
![Boy Who Loved Math, The: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/1596433078.jpg)
The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos
by Deborah Heiligman and LeUyen Pham
(Winner, 2014)
25 Resources7 Awards
![Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1939547202.jpg)
Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine
by Laurie Wallmark and April Chu
(Honor, 2016)
24 Resources7 Awards
![Butterfly for a King: Saving Hawaiʻi's Kamehameha Butterflies](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1620149710.jpg)
Butterfly for a King: Saving Hawaiʻi's Kamehameha Butterflies
by Cindy Trumbore and Susan L. Roth
(Silver Honor, 2022)
24 Resources5 Awards
![Mario and the Hole in the Sky: How a Chemist Saved Our Planet](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/65985_hi.jpg)
Mario and the Hole in the Sky: How a Chemist Saved Our Planet
by Elizabeth Rusch and Teresa Martínez
(Winner, 2020)
23 Resources9 Awards
![No Monkeys, No Chocolate](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1580892876.jpg)
No Monkeys, No Chocolate
by Melissa Stewart, Allen Young, and Nicole Wong
(Honor, 2014)
21 Resources3 Awards
![Follow the Moon Home: A Tale of One Idea, Twenty Kids, and a Hundred Sea Turtles](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/49402_hi.jpg)
Follow the Moon Home: A Tale of One Idea, Twenty Kids, and a Hundred Sea Turtles
by Philippe Cousteau, Deborah Hopkinson, and Meilo So
(Honor, 2017)
21 Resources3 Awards
![Hedy Lamarr's Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1454926910.jpg)
Hedy Lamarr's Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor
by Laurie Wallmark and Katy Wu
(Honor, 2020)
20 Resources4 Awards
![Honeybee Man, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0375849807.jpg)
![Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0545273226.jpg)
Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas
by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm
(Honor, 2013)
19 Resources4 Awards
![Book of Turtles, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/88016_hi.jpg)
![Mystery of the Monarchs, The: How Kids, Teachers, and Butterfly Fans Helped Fred and Norah Urquhart Track the Great Monarch Migration](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/1984829564.jpg)
The Mystery of the Monarchs: How Kids, Teachers, and Butterfly Fans Helped Fred and Norah Urquhart Track the Great Monarch Migration
by Barb Rosenstock and Erika Meza
(Silver Honor, 2023)
18 Resources5 Awards
![Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1481416006.jpg)
Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor
by Robert Burleigh and Raúl Colón
(Honor, 2017)
17 Resources7 Awards
![Mr. Ferris and His Wheel](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/0547959222.jpg)
![Mysterious Patterns: Finding Fractals in Nature](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/1620916274.jpg)
Mysterious Patterns: Finding Fractals in Nature
by Sarah C. Campbell and Richard P. Campbell
(Honor, 2015)
15 Resources6 Awards
![Your Place in the Universe](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0823446239.jpg)
![Perkin's Perfect Purple: How a Boy Created Color with Chemistry](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1368032842.jpg)
Perkin's Perfect Purple: How a Boy Created Color with Chemistry
by Tami Lewis Brown, Debbie Loren Dunn, and Francesca Sanna
(Honor, 2021)
15 Resources1 Awards
![Infinity and Me](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0761367268.jpg)
![Toilet: How It Works](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/36799_hi.jpg)
![High Tide for Horseshoe Crabs](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1580896049.jpg)
High Tide for Horseshoe Crabs
by Lisa Kahn Schnell and Alan Marks
(Honor, 2016)
12 Resources4 Awards
![Cougar Crossing: How Hollywood's Celebrity Cougar Helped Build a Bridge for City Wildlife](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/153446185X.jpg)
Cougar Crossing: How Hollywood's Celebrity Cougar Helped Build a Bridge for City Wildlife
by Meeg Pincus and Alexander Vidal
(Gold Winner, 2022)
12 Resources3 Awards
![We Go Way Back: A Book about Life on Earth and How It All Began](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1250850797.jpg)
We Go Way Back: A Book about Life on Earth and How It All Began
by Idan Ben-Barak and Philip Bunting
(Honor, 2024)
12 Resources3 Awards
![Timeless Thomas: How Thomas Edison Changed Our Lives](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0805091084.jpg)
![Beauty and the Beak: How Science, Technology, and a 3D-Printed Beak Rescued a Bald Eagle](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/194397828X.jpg)
Beauty and the Beak: How Science, Technology, and a 3D-Printed Beak Rescued a Bald Eagle
by Deborah Lee Rose and Jane Veltkamp
(Winner, 2018)
11 Resources3 Awards
![Nano: The Spectacular Science of the Very (Very) Small](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1536217662.jpg)
Nano: The Spectacular Science of the Very (Very) Small
by Jess Wade and Melissa Castrillón
(Silver Honor, 2022)
11 Resources4 Awards
![Santiago Saw Things Differently](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1536224537.jpg)
Santiago Saw Things Differently
by Christine Iverson and Luciano Lozano
(Honor, 2024)
11 Resources5 Awards
![Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0374349134.jpg)
![Behold the Beautiful Dung Beetle](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1580895549.jpg)
![Secret Engineer: How Emily Roebling Built the Brooklyn Bridge](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1250155320.jpg)
![Karl, Get Out of the Garden!: Carolus Linnaeus and the Naming of Everything](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1580896065.jpg)
Karl, Get Out of the Garden!: Carolus Linnaeus and the Naming of Everything
by Anita Sanchez and Catherine Stock
(Honor, 2018)
9 Resources1 Awards
![Hidden Life of a Toad, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/158089738X.jpg)
![Great Carrier Reef](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0823452689.jpg)
![How Many Jelly Beans?](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1452102066.jpg)
![Bone by Bone: Comparing Animal Skeletons](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/0761384642.jpg)
Bone by Bone: Comparing Animal Skeletons
by Sara Levine and T.S. Spookytooth
(Honor, 2014)
7 Resources2 Awards
![Flower Talk: How Plants Use Color to Communicate](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1541519280.jpg)
Flower Talk: How Plants Use Color to Communicate
by Sara Levine and Masha D'Yans
(Honor, 2020)
7 Resources2 Awards
![If You Take Away the Otter](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0763689343.jpg)
If You Take Away the Otter
by Susannah Buhrman-Deever and Matthew Trueman
(Honor, 2021)
7 Resources5 Awards
![Journey: Based on the True Story of OR7, the Most Famous Wolf in the West](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1632170655.jpg)
Journey: Based on the True Story of OR7, the Most Famous Wolf in the West
by Emma Bland Smith and Robin James
(Winner, 2017)
6 Resources1 Awards
![Anglerfish: The Seadevil of the Deep](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1536213969.jpg)
Anglerfish: The Seadevil of the Deep
by Elaine M. Alexander and Fiona Fogg
(Gold Winner, 2023)
6 Resources2 Awards
![Infinity: Figuring Out Forever](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/1629798754.jpg)
Infinity: Figuring Out Forever
by Sarah C. Campbell and Richard P. Campbell
(Silver Honor, 2023)
6 Resources1 Awards
![Galapagos George](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0060287934.jpg)