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Biography and Autobiography

From the Pigeon Post essay of the same name, September 28th, 2008

This book list is divided into three sections:
(1) Picture Books
(2) Books for Independent Readers
(3) Books for Young Adults

The list begins below with Picture Books, but you can use one of the following links to skip directly to either of the other two sections.
Go to books for Independent Readers
Go to books for Young Adults


Picture Books

Johnny Appleseed by Reeve Lindbergh Highly Recommended
A Street Through Time by Anne Millard and illustrated by Steve Noon Highly Recommended
The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles and illustrated by George Ford Recommended
Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May? by Jean Fritz and illustrated by Margot Tomes Recommended
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? by Jean Fritz Recommended
Paul Cezanne by Robert Burleigh & National Gallery of Art Suggested
Can't You Make Them Behave, King George by Jean Fritz and illustrated by Tomie dePaola Suggested
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein Suggested
Johnny Appleseed by Steven Kellogg Suggested


Independent Reader

Going Solo by Roald Dahl Highly Recommended
Lincoln by Russell Freedman Highly Recommended
Indian Chiefs by Russell Freedman Highly Recommended
Cheaper By The Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey Highly Recommended
Belles on Their Toes by Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey Highly Recommended
Rocket Boys by Homer H. Hickam Highly Recommended
A Night To Remember by Walter Lord Highly Recommended
My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber Highly Recommended
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder and illustrated by Garth Williams Highly Recommended
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder and illustrated by Garth Williams Highly Recommended
A Weed Is a Flower by Aliki Recommended
Boy by Roald Dahl Recommended
Confucius by Russell Freedman and illustrated by Frederic Clement Recommended
Eleanor Roosevelt by Russell Freedman Recommended
The Wright Brothers by Russell Freedman Recommended
Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt! by Jean Fritz and illustrated by Mike Wimmer Recommended
Homesick by Jean Fritz and illustrated by Margot Tomes Recommended
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? by Jean Fritz Recommended
Traitor by Jean Fritz Recommended
The Endless Steppe by Esther Rudomin Hautzig Recommended
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot Recommended
Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and illustrated by Mary Azarian Recommended
Bill Peet by Bill Peet Recommended
The Glorious Flight by Alice Provensen and Martin Provensen Recommended
Traveling Man by James Rumford Recommended
Peter the Great by Diane Stanley Recommended
Saladin by Diane Stanley Recommended
Mary on Horseback by Rosemary Wells Recommended


Young Adult

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell Highly Recommended
Good-Bye to All That by Robert Graves Highly Recommended
Sagittarius Rising by Cecil Lewis Highly Recommended
A Distant Mirror by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman Highly Recommended
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler Recommended
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Recommended
The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin Suggested
All over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg Suggested
I Could Never Be So Lucky Again by James H. Doolittle Suggested
Two Lives of Charlemagne by Nofker the Stammerer and Einhard the Frank Suggested
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin Suggested
An Autobiography by Mahatma Gandhi Suggested
Empires Of Light by Jill Jonnes Suggested
The Color of Water by James McBride Suggested
The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester Suggested
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester Suggested

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