2023 Finalist: Children’s Science Picture Book

HeroRat!: Magawa, a Lifesaving Rodent, by Jodie Parachini. (Illustrated by Keiron Ward and Jason Dewhirst.) Albert Whitman & Company, 2022.

Magawa is an African giant pouched rat with a special skill: sniffing out buried land mines. Follow this HeroRat from training at a university in Tanzania, to working in the field in Cambodia, to winning a gold medal for her efforts to make land safe for humans and animals once again.