The Junior Aventis Prize for Science Books, a pound;10,000 award for a title for under-14s, will be made next month. Three of the six shortlisted books are published by Dorling Kindersley: DK Guide to Dinosaurs by David Lambert, DK Guide to Weather by Michael Allaby nd Eyewitness Guide: Epidemics by Brian Ward. Nick Arnold’s Suffering Scientists (Scholastic), Janice Lobb and Peter Utton’s At Home With Science series (Kingfisher) and The Complete Book of the Brain by John Farndon (Hodder Wayland) make up the list.
