biography

An illustrated biography of Sally Ride, describing the life of the first American woman to travel in space.

A brief, illustrated biography of children's book illustrator and author Maurice Sendak.

Chronicles the life and accomplishments of Italian navigator, colonizer, and explorer Christopher Columbus.

Margaret Pokiak-Fenton tells the story of her experience as an eight-year-old Inuit girl in a church-run school in Aklavik, Canada, where her strong will made her the target of a mean-spirited nun.

A biography of Abner Doubleday, which focuses on his love for baseball when he was young and who became a general in the Civil War later in life.

Recounts the daring exploits of sixty-three-year-old Annie Edson Taylor who designed a barrel that she then used to ride over Niagara Falls for the Pan-American Exposition in 1901.

An illustrated biography of Babe Ruth that describes his childhood and how he became a famous baseball player.

An introduction to the life and achievements of the first American female doctor describes the limited career prospects available to women in the early nineteenth-century, the opposition Blackwell faced while pursuing a medical education, and her pioneering medical career that opened doors for future generations of women.

An overview of the life and works of children's author Gordon Korman.

An illustrated biography for children of St. Martin de Porres, canonized in 1962, the first black saint in the Americas, illegitimate child of a Spanish nobleman and a former slave, born in Lima, Peru in 1579, and educated in Ecuador as a barber/doctor, and describes his entrance into the Dominican Order and his life of service and healing.