Based on the title alone, I'm rooting for It's True! Space Turns You Into Spaghetti*

The Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, has announced its shortlist of books vying for the 2007 Junior Prize:

• Can You Feel the Force? by Richard Hammond
• How Nearly Everything Was Invented by The Brainwaves, illustrated by Lisa Swerling and Ralph Lazar, written by Jilly MacLeod
• It's True! Space Turns You Into Spaghetti by Heather Catchpole and Vanessa Woods
• KFK Natural Disasters by Andrew Langley
• My Body Book by Mick Manning and Brita Granström
• Science Investigations - Electricity by John Farndon

Adults picked the shortlist, but readers up to age 14 will pick the winner, to be announced May 15.

Thanks to my BBC-philic better half for tipping me off.


* Whereas the kidlitosphere turns you onto Chicken Spaghetti.