Biography

This biography imagines the childhood reading life that helped shape writer and scholar Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.

Eleanor Roosevelt emerges as a restless, outspoken public figure who helped reshape what leadership could look like.

A school bus carries children through Rosa Parks's story and the wider history of Montgomery's bus boycott.

Poetic text and collage bring Fannie Lou Hamer's life, courage, and civil-rights activism into view for young readers.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and language are distilled into a picture book built around the power of his words.

Art and text together introduce Arturo Schomburg and his lifelong work collecting Black history the world tried to erase.

This biography shows how Isatou Ceesay helped transform plastic waste into community income and environmental change.

This adaptation introduces the Black women mathematicians whose work helped launch the space race.

Mae Jemison's childhood dream of space becomes a picture-book invitation to ambition and persistence.

This biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat connects Black creativity, art-making, and city energy from childhood on.