Biographies for Children

Biographies for Children

Who overcame great adversity to become the fastest woman in the world? When did Charles Lindbergh make his famous transatlantic flight? Read all about famous men and women and their accomplishments in these excellent juvenile biographies.

Younger Readers
Older Readers

Biographies for Younger Readers

• Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes
  Ages 7-10
• To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers by Wendie C. Old
  Ages 7-10
• Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer by Robert Byrd
  Ages 7-11
• My Name is Georgie: A Portrait by Jeanette Winter
  Ages 6-10
• Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg
  Ages 6-10
• Frida by Jonah Winter
  Ages 5-9
• Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man by David Adler
  Ages 5-9
• Alvin Ailey by Andrea Davis Pinkney
  Ages 6-10
• When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson, The Voice of a Century by Pam Munoz Ryan
  Ages 6-10
• Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta by James Rumford
  Ages 5-10
• Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
  Ages 4-9
• You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer! by Shana Corey
  Ages 4-9
• The Daring Nellie Bly: America’s Star Reporter by Bonnie Christensen
  Ages 6-9
• Aunt Clara Brown: Official Pioneer by Linda Lowery
  Ages 6-9
• 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie De Paola
  Ages 6-10
• Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein by Don Brown
  Ages 6-10
• America’s Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle by David A. Adler
  Ages 5-9
• Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa by Andrea Davis Pinkney
  Ages 4-9
• Anne Frank by Josephine Poole
  Ages 8-11
• The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin by James Cross Giblin
  Ages 7-11
• Starry Messenger by Peter Sís
  Ages 7-11
• Can’t You Make Them Behave, King George? by Jean Fritz
  Ages 7-10
• Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley
  Ages 7-11
• Sundiata: Lion King of Mali by David Wisniewski
  Ages 6-10
• Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa by Don Brown
  Ages 6-10
• Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story by Paula Yoo
  Ages 5-8
• Honest Abe by Edith Kundhardt
  Ages 5-9
• Mandela: From the Life of the South African Statesman by Floyd Cooper
  Ages 6-10
• The Real McCoy: The Life of an African-American Inventor by Wendy Towle
  Ages 6-10
• Satchel Paige by Lesa Cline-Ransome
  Ages 6-10
• Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
  Ages 5-10
• Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman by Kathleen Krull
  Ages 5-9
• Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam by Diane Stanley
  Ages 8-10
• Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing by James Rumford
  Ages 5-9
• Henry David’s House by Henry David Thoreau
  Ages 5-9
• Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth by Anne Rockwell
  Ages 6-10

Biographies for Older Readers

• You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? by Jean Fritz
  Ages 8-12
• Inventing the Future: A Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison by Marfe Ferguson Delano
  Ages 10-12
• Sky Pioneer: A Photobiography of Amelia Earhart by Corinne Szabo
  Ages 9-13
• Norman Rockwell: Storyteller with a Brush by Beverly Gherman
  Ages 8-12
• This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie by Elizabeth Partridge
  Ages 10-14
• Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare by DianeStanley
  Ages 8-11
• Leon’s Story by Leon Walter Tillage
  Ages 8-12
• The Greatest: Muhammad Ali by Walter Dean Myers
  Ages 9-14
• The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman
  Ages 10-14
• At Her Majesty’s Request: An African Princess in Victorian England by Walter Dean Myers
  Ages 10-14
• Heroine of the Titanic: The Real Unsinkable Molly Brown by Elaine Landau
  Ages 9-13
• The Life and Death of Crazy Horse by Russell Freedman
  Ages 11-14
• Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy by Seymour Reit
  Ages 9-13
• B. Franklin, Printer by David A. Adler
  Ages 9-13
• Martha Graham: A Dancer’s Life by Russell Freedman
  Ages 10-14
• Spellbinder: The Life of Harry Houdini by Tom Lalicki
  Ages 9-13
• The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka’iulani by Fay Stanley
  Ages 9-14
• Helen Keller: Rebellious Spirit by Laurie Lawlor
  Ages 10-13
• I Have a Dream: The Life and Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Jim Haskins
  Ages 10-13
• Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange by Elizabeth Partridge
  Ages 10-14
• Charles A. Lindbergh: A Human Hero by James Cross Giblin
  Ages 9-13
• Osceola: Memories of a Sharecroppper’s Daughter by Alan Govenar
  Ages 8-12
• Shipwrecked! The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy by Rhoda Blumberg
  Ages 8-12
• Bull’s Eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley by Sue Macy
• Clara Schumann: Piano Virtuoso by Susanna Reich
  Ages 9-13
• Shakespeare: His Work and His World by Michael Rosen
  Ages 11-15
• Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary by Walter Dean Myers
  Ages 12-14
• Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement by Dennis Brindell Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin
  Ages 10-14
• The Wright Brothers: How they Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman
  Ages 9-13

Last Updated: 21 October 2009