Picture Book Biographies

Title Author Illustrator

Trombone Shorty Andrews, Troy Collier, Bryan

Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Bardoe, Cheryl McClintock, Barbara

Mathematician Sophie Germain

Emily Bedard, Michael Cooney, Barbara

Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau Berne, Jennifer Puybaret, Eric

Papa is a Poet: A Story About Robert Frost Bober, Natalie S. Gibbon, Rebecca

Step Right up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught Bowman, Donna Janell Minter, Daniel
the World About Kindness

Snowflake Bentley Briggs Martin, Jacqueline Azarian, Mary

Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa Brown, Don

Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille Bryant, Jen Kulikov, Boris

The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus Bryant, Jen Sweet, Melissa

A River of Words Bryant, Jen Sweet, Melissa

The Story of Ruby Bridges Coles, Robert Ford, George

Dear Mr. Washington Cullen, Lynn Carpenter, Nancy

Abraham Lincoln d’Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar Parin

Buffalo Bill d’Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar Parin

Columbus d’Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar Parin

Leif the Lucky d’Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar Parin

The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John Davies, Jacqueline Sweet, Melissa
James Audubon

Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci D’Agnese, Joseph O’Brien, John

Florence Nightingale Demi

Dare the Wind: The Record-Breaking Voyage Fern, Tracey McCully, Emily Arnold
of Eleanor Prentiss and the Flying Cloud

Emma’s Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Glaser, Linda Nivola, Claire A.
Liberty

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Bon Appetit! The Delicious Life of Julia Child Hartland, Jessie

The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Heiligman, Deborah Pham, LeUyen
Life of Paul Erdos

A Boy, a Mouse, and a Spider: The Story of Herkert, Barbara Castillo, Lauren
E.B. White

The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Hopkins, H. Joseph McElmurry, Jill
Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever

Apples to Oregon Hopkinson, Deborah Carpenter, Nancy

Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen Hopkinson, Deborah Leng, Qin

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Kamkwamba, William and Zunon, Elizabeth
Mealer, Bryan

Stand Straight, Ella Kate Klise, Kate Klise, M. Sarah

The Boy on Fairfield Street: How Ted Geisel Krull, Kathleen Johnson, Steve and
Grew Up to Become Dr. Seuss Fancher, Lou

The Librarian Who Measured the Earth Lasky, Kathryn Hawkes, Kevin

Balderdash!: John Newbery and the Markel, Michelle Carpenter, Nancy

Boisterous Birth of Children’s Books

Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Markel, Michelle Sweet, Melissa
Strike of 1909

Finding Winnie: The True Story fo the World’s Mattick, Lindsay Blackall, Sophie
Most Famous Bear

Caroline’s Comets: A True Story McCully, Emily Arnold

The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story Mosca, Julia Finley Rieley, Daniel
of Dr. Temple Grandin

Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Napoli, Donna Jo Nelson, Kadir
Kenya

A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Pinkney, Andrea Davis Johnson, Steve and
Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day Fancher, Lou

Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Pinkney, Andrea Davis Pinkney, Brian
Orchestra

Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa Pinkney, Andrea Davis Pinkney, Brian

To Dare Mighty Things: The Life of Theodore Rappaport, Doreen

Roosevelt

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Big Machines: The Story of Virginia Lee Rinker, Sherry Duskey Rocco, John
Burton

Ben Franklin’s Big Splash: The Mostly True Rosenstock, Barb Berneis, Susie
Story of His First Invention

Dorothea’s Eyes Rosenstock, Barb Dubuois, Gerard

Blue Grass Boy: The Story of Bill Monroe, Rosenstock, Barb Fotheringham, Edwin
Father of Bluegrass Music

The Camping Trip that Changed America Rosenstock, Barb Gerstein, Mordecai

The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds Rosenstock, Barb GrandPre, Mary
of Kandinsky’s Abstract Art

Vincent Can’t Sleep Rosenstock, Barb GrandPre, Mary

The Secret Kingdom: Nek Chand, a Rosenstock, Barb Nivola, Claire A.

Changing India, and a Hidden World of Art

Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library Rosenstock, Barb O’Brien, John

Otis and Will Discover the Deep Rosenstock, Barb Roy, Katherine

The Streak: How Joe DiMaggio Became Rosenstock, Barb Widener, Terry
America’s Hero

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Shetterly, Margot Lee Freeman, Laura
Women and the Space Race

Balloons Over Broadway Sweet, Melissa

Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Thompson, Laurie Ann Qualls, Sean
Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah

Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Wallmark, Laurie Chu, April
Machine

The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Winter, Jeanette

Chimps

Abe Lincoln: The Boy Who Loved Books Winters, Kay Carpenter, Nancy

A Kite for Moon Yolen, Jane and Stemple, Phelan, Matt

Heidi E.Y.

Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Yoo, Paula Lee, Dom

Sammy Lee Story

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