A Selection of Our Favorite Picture Book Biographies

Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois, by Amy Novesky, illustration by Isabelle Arsenault; Sweet Dreams, Sarah, by Vivian Kirkfield, illustration by Chris Ewald; Martin & Anne: The Kindred Spirits of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank, by Nancy Churnin, illustration by Yevgenia Nayberg

Enormous Smallness: A Story of E. E. Cummings, by Matthew Burgess, illustration by Kris Di Giacomo; The Dance of the Violin, by Kathy Stinson, illustration by Dušan Petričić; The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read, by Rita Lorraine Hubbard, illustration by Oge Mora

Josephine, by Patricia Hruby Powell, illustration by Christian Robinson; Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade, Melissa Sweet; The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus, by Jen Bryant, illustration by Melissa Sweet

Some Writer! The Story of E. B. White, Melissa Sweet; Numbers in Motion: Sophie Kowalevski, Queen of Mathematics, by Laurie Wallmark, illustration by Vevgenia Nayberg; Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor, by Patricia Valdez, illustration by Felicita Sala