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Biography Genre
Books in the Biography genre:
A Caldecott Celebration (1998)
Author(s):
Leonard S. Marcus
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner
Et al
The Children’s Book of America (1998)
Short essays on American history, biographies, poems and folk tales.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Laura’s Album: A Remembrance Scrapbook of Laura Ingalls Wilder (1998)
A large collection, chiefly of pictures of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family members.
Author(s):
None
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Maxfield Parrish 1870-1966 (1999)
This is the catalog of an exhibition of Maxfield Parrish’s work, mounted in 1999 by The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Author(s):
Sylvia Yount
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish
The Origins of Story: On Writing for Children (1999)
Seventeen essays on aspects of writing for children.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
A Treasury of Narnia The Story of C.S. Lewis and His Chronicles of Narnia (1999)
A compendium of information about all things Lewis and Narnia.
Author(s):
Alison Sage
Brian Sibley
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Children’s Book of Faith (2000)
A collection of stories from the bible, biographies, poems and prayers.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Arthur Rackham (2002)
A catalog of an exhibition of the work of Arthur Rackham.
Author(s):
Rodney K. Engen
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
The Children’s Book of Home and Family (2002)
A collection of stories and poems dealing with families.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Virgina Lee Burton: A Life in Art (2002)
A biography of author and illustrator Virginia Lee Burton.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
None
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Photographs
The Island's True Child (2003)
A biography of author Dorothy Simpson, drawn from her diaries and memoirs.
Author(s):
Dorothy Simpson
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
David Wiesner (2004)
A short biography of the illustrator for children.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Jill C. Wheeler
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner
John Masefield the ‘Great Auk’ of English Literature (2004)
A comprehensive bibliography of the British poet laureate.
Author(s):
Philip W. Errington
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
John Lavery
Photographs
Sea Clocks: The Story of Longitude (2004)
Author(s):
Louise Borden
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Kitty and Mr. Kipling: Neighbors in Vermont (2005)
Author(s):
Lenore Blegvad
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
The Young Hans Christian Andersen (2005)
This biography relates the events of Hans Christian Andersen’s youth to his later writings.
Author(s):
Karen Hesse
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
A Little House Traveler Writings from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Journeys Across America (2006)
This is an anthology containing On the Way Home, West from Home and The Road Back Home, the story of Laura and Manly’s return to South Dakota in 1931.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Ain’t Nobody a Stranger to Me (2007)
A former slave tells his granddaughter how he took the Underground Railway to freedom.
Author(s):
Ann Grifalconi
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
The Marlows and Their Maker (2007)
A collection of material about the novels and their author.
Author(s):
Anne E. Heazlewood
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Celebrating Antonia Forest (2008)
Author(s):
Antonia Forest
Various
Illustrator(s):
None