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Outstanding Short Biography Collections
You know the young readers, and striving readers, who will love all three of these books. They’re a collection of biographies, two of the books focused on women, and one of the books choosing among children across the centuries and around the world. Whether you’re looking for your home bookshelves or your library’s these three books are highly recommended.
Girls Think of Everything:
Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women
written by Catherine Thimmesh
illustrated by Melissa Sweet
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000 and 2018, 112 pages
One of my favorite books for young people, Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women has just been reissued with many new profiles of clever, dedicated women.
I had a book when I was young (and I don’t remember the title) that was filled with short biographies of women who had made important contributions. Their names are familiar to us now, Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton, Joan of Arc. I was inspired. I read that book over and over.
When Catherine Thimmesh and Melissa Sweet created the first Girls Think of Everything, those short biographies resonated with
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The 50 Best Biographies of All Time
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Crown The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, by Tom Reiss
You’re probably familiar with The Count of Monte Cristo, the 1844 revenge novel by Alexandre Dumas. But did you know it was based on the life of Dumas’s father, the mixed-race General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, son of a French nobleman and a Haitian slave? Thanks to Reiss’s masterful pacing and plotting, this rip-roaring biography of Thomas-Alexandre reads more like an adventure novel than a work of nonfiction. The Black Count won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2013, and it’s only a matter of time before a filmmaker turns it into a big-screen blockbuster.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret, by Craig Brown
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