2023 Finalist: Children’s Science Picture Book

Tu Youyou's Discovery: Finding a Cure for Malaria, by Songju Ma Daemicke. (Illustrated by Lin.) Albert Whitman & Company, 2021.

Tu Youyou had been interested in science and medicine since she was a child, so when malaria started infecting people all over the world in 1969, she went to work finding a treatment. Trained as a medical researcher in college and healed by traditional medicine techniques when she was young, Tu Youyou started experimenting with natural Chinese remedies. The treatment she discovered through years of research and experimentation is still used all over the world today.