Kids Pick Winston's Book As Winner

A book by Lord Robert Winston has won this year's Aventis Science Junior Prize. 'What Makes Me, Me?' was chosen by a panel of 800 kids as their favourite science book of 2005.

Lord Winston was given his prize (a whopping £10,000!) at a swish ceremony in London last week.

Here he is with his winning book. Do you recognise him from science programmes on the telly?

A shortlist of six books was chosen by a panel of expert adult judges including Dr Tanya Byron (another one you may have seen on TV) and Nick Arnold, author of hundreds of science books for kids and winner of the 2004 prize.

Those six books were given out to the 800 young judges, who've have all been busy bookworms over the last few weeks, working their way through them.

Twelve-year-old Melis, one of the junior judges, really enjoyed the winning book - "The subjects were interesting and it was easy to understand. I didn't close the book until it was done."

These are the fantastic books which made it to the shortlist.

Visit the Aventis Prize website (and scroll down the page that opens up) to find out more about the books.

If you like writing and science, watch out for our fantastic new Writing Science Competition going live later this week.

We've got stacks of science books to give away, thanks to the kind people behind the Aventis Prize*, so don't miss it!

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The 800 junior judges were based in science clubs all around the UK. Some of them belong to Scizmic clubs and some are Young Engineers.

Show Me's Science and Technology section is packed with science games and you can plan days out to science museums on our Places To Go page.

* The Aventis Prize is organised by The Royal Society and The Aventis Foundation.