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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorDaredevil: The Daring Life of Betty Skelton
Meghan Mccarthy · 48 pages
In the 1930s most girls were happy playing with dolls. But one girl, Betty Skelton, liked playing with airplanes, watching them fly around outside, and even flying airplanes herself! She lived for an adventure—in the air, the water, and on land—and nothing could stop her, especially not being a girl. When Betty Skelton was young there weren’t many women flying airplanes or racing cars, but she
Eleanor
Barbara Cooney · 32 pages
Presents the childhood of Eleanor Roosevelt, who married a president of the United States and became known as a great humanitarian.
Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber
Sue Macy · 40 pages
From beloved author Sue Macy comes an illustrated biography of Mary Garber, one of the first female sports journalists in American history!
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
Kathleen Krull · 48 pages
A biography of Cesar Chavez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily on their Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest against California migrant workers' miserable working conditions.
Helen's Big World: The Life of Helen Keller
Doreen Rappaport
Steve Martin: A Little Golden Book Biography
Andrea Posner-Sanchez; illustrated by Brenna Vaughan
Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois
Amy Novesky · 40 pages
Just as spiders spin and repair their webs, Louise s own mother was a weaver of tapestries. Louise spent her childhood in France as an apprentice to her mother before she became a tapestry artist herself. She worked with fabric throughout her career, and this biographical picture book shows how Bourgeois s childhood experiences weaving with her loving, nurturing mother provided the inspiration for
Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors?: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell (Christy Ottaviano Books)
Tanya Lee Stone
The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch
Chris Barton
"A picture book biography of John Roy Lynch, one of the first African-Americans elected into the United States Congress"--Provided by publisher.
Nelson Mandela
Kadir Nelson · 40 pages
Presents a biography of the former South African president best known for his political activism and fight to end apartheid.
George Washington
Ingri d'Aulaire, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire · 55 pages
A simple biography of Washington, telling of the major events in his life and stressing the upbringing that endowed him with the qualities of leadership.
Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein
Don Brown · 32 pages
An introduction to the work and early life of the twentieth-century physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.
Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
Wendy Loggia
Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson
Sharon Robinson
As a testament to his courage, Jackie Robinson's daughter shares memories of him, from his baseball career to the day he tests the ice for her, her brothers, and their friends.
Those Rebels, John and Tom
Barbara Kerley
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were very different. John was short and stout. Tom was tall and lean. John was argumentative and blunt. Tom was soft-spoken and polite. John sometimes got along with almost no one. Tom got along with just about everyone. But these two very different gentlemen did have two things in common: they both cared deeply about the American colonies, and neither cared much fo
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik · 199 pages
This entertaining and insightful young readers edition mixes pop culture, humor, and expert analysis to deliver a remarkable account of the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Heroine. Trailblazer. Pioneer.
On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein
Jennifer Berne · 56 pages
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
Debbie Levy · 40 pages
Traces the achievements of the celebrated Supreme Court justice through the lens of her many famous acts of civil disagreement against inequality, unfair treatment, and human rights injustice.
Benjamin Franklin
Ingri d'Aulaire · 48 pages
A biography of the witty author, scientist, and statesman who helped with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and became the first ambassador of the United States of America.
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai (Frances Foster Books)
Claire A. Nivola · 32 pages
Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor
Robert Burleigh
"This illustrated biography shares the story of female scientist, Marie Tharp, a pioneering woman scientist and the first person to ever successfully map the ocean floor"--
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
Jennifer Fisher Bryant
"Words, Peter learned, were powerful things. And when he put them in long, neat rows, he felt as if the world itself clicked into order." For shy young Peter Mark Roget, books were the best companions — and it wasn't long before Peter began writing his own book. But he didn't write stories; he wrote lists. Peter took his love for words and used it to organize his ideas and find exactly the righ