The original target was: What biographies do you recommend as being top =
quality for K-2?=20
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From someone who teaches children's Lit.:
1.. Economy of storyline: famous women in picture books
You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer! Shana Corey, illus by=20
Chelsey McLaren, Scholastic 2000
Emily, by Michael Bedard, illus by Barbara Cooney, 1992,=20
Doubleday
Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride, Pam Mu=F1oz Ryan, illus by=20
Brian Selznick, Scholastic 1999.
Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings, by Deborah=20
Hopkinson. Pictures by Terry Widener. Anne=20
Schwartz/Atheneum/S&S. 2003. 40p.
2. Economy of storyline; not-so-famous women and men in picture=20
books
Snowflake Bentley, by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, Illus by Mary=20
Azarian, Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Don Brown, Rare Treasure: Mary Anning, Houghton Mifflin, 1999
Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley, Houghton Mifflin 2000
Across A Dark and Wild Sea, calligraphy by Deborah Nadel.=20
Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook. 2002
Mack Made Movies. Roaring Brook. 2003.
3. Artists' lives in picture books
My Name is Georgia, by Jeanette Winter, Silver Whistle/Harcourt,=20
1998
A Boy Named Giotto, by Paolo Guarnieri, illus by Bimba=20
Landmann, transl. by Jonathan Galassi, 1999, FS&G
Michelangelo, by Diane Stanley, HarperCollins 2000;=20
HarperTrophy pbk 2003.
First Painter, by Kathryn Lasky, illus by Rocco Baviera, 2000. DK=20
Ink
Uncle Andy's: A faabbbbulous visit with Andy Warhol, by James=20
Warhola. GP Putnam's Sons/Penguin Putnam. 2003.
4. Musicians' lives in picture books
Mysterious Thelonius, by Chris Raschka, 1997, Orchard {O.P.?}
Shake Rag: from the Life of Elvis Presley, by Amy Littlesugar, illus=20
by Floyd Cooper, 1998, Philomel Penguin Putnam.
Purple Mountain Majesties: Katharine Bates and "America the=20
Beautiful" by Barbara Younger, illus by Stacey Schuett, Dutton,=20
1998.
M.T. Anderson. Handel, who knew what he liked, illus by Kevin=20
Hawkes. Candlewick. 2001
Strange Mr Satie , illus by Petra Mathers, Viking 2003.
7. Engaging formats
Savion: My Life in Tap, by Savion Glover and Bruce Weber, 2000,=20
Morrow. (NOT in pbk 8/5/03)
Cool Melons - Turn to Frogs! The Life and Poems of Issa, by=20
Matthew Gollub, illus by Kazuko G. Stone, 1998, Lee & Low
Buddy Books First Biographies (ABDO)
First Biographies (Pebble Books/Capstone)
(There are a LOT of other Pebble Books that are great for 1 & 2)
Reading Power (sports figures) (PowerKids Press/Rosen Pub.)Salt in his =
shoes (written by Michael Jordon's mom)
Boss of the Plains (story of the Stetson hat)
Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
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I just purchased the 20 book set of rookie biographies and my kids love
them. I cant keep the books on the shelf.
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Pebble books are good for those to read on their own. They are very =
simple
with limited information, but a beginning reader can read them.
I'm taking a biography class and these are the picture book we had to =
read.
Not all are classes s biographies
You forgot your skirt, Amelia Bloomer/Corey
Emily/ bedard
Ameilia and Eleanor go for a ride/Ryan
Girl Wonder/Hopkinson
Rare treasure: Mary Anning/Brown
Uncommon traveler: Mary Kingsley/Brown
Across a dark and wild sea/Brown
Mack made movies/Brown
My name is Georgia/Winter
A boy named Giotto/Guarnieri
Michelangelo/Stanley
First painter/Lasky
Uncle Andy's/Warhola
Mysterious Thelonius/Raschka OP but if you can get used buy it!
Shake Rag:from the life of Elvis Presley/Littlesugar
Handel who knew what he liked/Anderson
Purple Mountain majesties:Katharine Bates and America the Beautiful/ =
Younger
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I am at a 1-8 school and my kids love the Character Building series from
PowerKids press. (Learning about honesty from Abraham Lincoln, Courage =
from
the life of Christopher Reeve, Work Ethic from the Life of Cal Ripken, =
Jr.)
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My kids liked the series that only had afew sentences per page like Rosa =
Parks by Lola Schaefer. But I know you are looking for something a bit =
different, I do like the new biography called George Washington: Farmer =
Soldier President by Pamela Hill Nettleton. You may want to try Rosalyn =
Schanzer's How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning as well although it =
might be more for 2-3 graders. good luck!
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Mary Anning and the Sea Dragon (Atkins)
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins (Kerley)
Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man (Adler)
Honest Abe (Kunhardt)--not crazy about the pictures but a short, =
succinct,
easily understood bio. about Lincoln
When Marian Sang (Ryan)
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the James Stevenson books
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I love the Annie Oakley biography by National Geographic.
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Martin's Big Words: The Life Story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by =
Doreen Rappaport=20
The Heroine of the Titanic: a Tale Both True and Otherwise of the Life =
of Molly Brown by Joan W. Blos =20
Minty: a Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder =20
A Storyteller's Story by Rafe Martin=20
Ella Fitzgerald: the Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa by Andrea Davis Pinkney =20
Beatrix Potter by Alexandra Wallner=20
St. Valentine by Robert Sabuda=20
Patrick: Patron Saint of Ireland by Tomie dePaola=20
Snowshoe Thompson by Nancy Smiler Levinson=20
Prince Henry the Navigator by Leonard Everett Fisher=20
The Market Square Dog by James Herriot =20
The Last Princess: the Story of Princess Ka'iulani of Hawai'i by Fay =
Stanley=20
Duke Ellington: the Piano Prince and His Orchestra by Andrea Davis =
Pinkney =20
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins: an Illuminating History of Mr. =
Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley
Brave Harriet: the First Woman to Fly the English Channel by Marissa =
Moss =20
In Flight With David McPhail: a Creative Autobiography by David McPhail=20
One Giant Leap: the Story of Neil Armstrong by Don Brown=20
A Bookworm who Hatched by Verna Aardema =20
Michelangelo by Diane Stanley=20
The Man who Loved Books by Jean Fritz =20
Brother Francis and the Friendly Beasts by Margaret Hodges =20
Starry Messenger by Peter Sis=20
Searching for Laura Ingalls: a Reader's Journey by Kathryn Lasky and =
Meribah Knight=20
Talking to Faith Ringgold by Faith Ringgold, Linda Freeman & Nancy =
Roucher. =20
Bard of Avon: the Story of William Shakespeare by Diane Stanley and =
Peter Vennema
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Wilma Unlimited :the story of Wilma Rudolph by Kathleen Krull=20
America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle by David Adler=20
My Great Aunt Arizona by Grace Houston (?=20
An autobiography:=20
Big Mama's by Donald Crews
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We love Martin's Big Words and My Brother Martin (both MLK Jr.) and =
Aliki's Painted Memories/Spoken Words (title? two-sided book about her =
life in Greece and then in US). Denise Fleming's autobio., "Maker of =
Things, is good, too - in fact, that whole series is good (can't =
remember who publishes it, though
Mary Flanagan, Librarian
Chandler School
93 Chandler Street
Duxbury, MA 02332
mcflanagan@adelphia.net
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