Biographies for Kids
Explore 71 handpicked children's books in Biographies, chosen to help kids grow up curious about the wider world.
Books in this collection
The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette’s Journey to Cuba
Lion: A Long Way Home Young Readers’ Edition
Pele King Of Soccerpele El Rey Del Futbol
Persepolis The Story Of A Childhood Pantheon Graphic Novels
A Child Through Time: The Book of Children’s History
A Game For Swallows To Die To Leave To Return Single Titles
A Gift From Childhood Memories Of An African Boyhood
A Year Without Mom
Akira To Zoltan Twenty Six Men Who Changed The World
Are You an Echo?: The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko
Arroz con leche / Rice Pudding: Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem (Bilingual Cooking Poems)
Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions (Picture Puffin Books)
Ballerina Dreams: From Orphan to Dancer (Step Into Reading, Step 4)
Beatrices Goat
Biblioburro A True Story From Colombia
Bravo!: Poems About Amazing Hispanics
Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois
Danza!: Amalia Hernández and Mexico’s Folkloric Ballet
Dare To Disappoint Growing Up In Turkey
Drum Dream Girl How One Girls Courage Changed Music
Drummer Boy of John John
El Soñador: (Spanish language edition of The Dreamer) (Spanish Edition)
Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
Enchanted Air Two Cultures Two Wings A Memoir
Facing The Lion Growing Up Maasai On The African Savanna
For Audrey With Love: Audrey Hepburn and Givenchy
Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos
Frida Kahlo Y Sus Animalitos Spanish Edition
Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras (Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal (Awards))
Gandhi
Guacamole: Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem (Bilingual Cooking Poems)
Hope Is A Girl Selling Fruit
I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives
Mama Africa!: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya
Mandela: From the Life of the South African Statesman
Marco Polo
Miguel’s Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote
My Painted House My Friendly Chicken And Me
Nadia: The Girl Who Couldn’t Sit Still
Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People
Rumi Whirling Dervish
Seeds of Change: Wangari’s Gift to the World
Shaka Rising: A Legend of the Warrior Prince (The African Graphic Novel Series)
Six Dots A Story Of Young Louis Braille
Spicy Hot Colors Colores Picantes
Sundiata: Lion King of Mali
Swan The Life And Dance Of Anna Pavlova
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Young Reader’s Edition
The Dreamer
The House Baba Built: An Artist’s Childhood in China
The Iridescence Of Birds A Book About Henri Matisse
The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
The Lightning Dreamer Cubas Greatest Abolitionist
The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano (Pura Belpre Medal Book Author (Awards))
The Queen of Katwe: One Girl’s Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion
The Wall Growing Up Behind The Iron Curtain Caldecott Honor Book
Tito Puente, Mambo King/Tito Puente, Rey del Mambo (Pura Belpre Honor Books – Illustration Honor)
Traveling Man The Journey Of Ibn Battuta 1325 1354
Usain Bolt Amazing Athletes
Wangari Maathai The Woman Who Planted Millions Of Trees
Welcome To Country: A Traditional Aboriginal Ceremony
Wind, Sand and Stars (Harvest Book)
Women in African History – Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Women in African History – Njinga Mbandi
Women in African History – The Women Soldiers of Dahomey
Women in African History – Wangari Maathai
