Biographies for Kids
Explore 86 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 Long Walk To Water Based On A True Story
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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
Diego Rivera: His World and Ours
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
Esquivel Space Age Sound Artist
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
Lion Island: Cuba’s Warrior of Words
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 Night In The Planetarium
My Painted House My Friendly Chicken And Me
Nadia: The Girl Who Couldn’t Sit Still
Nasreens Secret School A True Story From Afghanistan
One Plastic Bag Isatou Ceesay And The Recycling Women Of The Gambia Millbrook Picture Books
Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai (Frances Foster Books)
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 Amazing Discoveries of Ibn Sina
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Young Reader’s Edition
The Dreamer
The Great Voyages Of Zheng He
The House Baba Built: An Artist’s Childhood in China
The Iridescence Of Birds A Book About Henri Matisse
The Language Of Angels A Story About The Reinvention Of Hebrew
The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
The Lightning Dreamer Cubas Greatest Abolitionist
The London Jungle Book
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
Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity!
Young Pele: Soccer’s First Star
Zheng He, The Great Chinese Explorer: A Bilingual Story of Adventure and Discovery (Chinese and English)
Narrow it down
- Children's Biographies About Africa
- Children's Biographies About Caribbean Islands
- Children's Biographies About East Asia and the Pacific
- Children's Biographies About Europe
- Children's Biographies About The Americas
- Children's Books About Protecting the Environment
- Memoirs for Kids and Teens
- Children's Books About Slavery and Abolition
- Children's Books About Famous Artists
- Children's Books About Music, Musicians and Dancers