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Biography Genre
Books in the Biography genre:
The Diary of E. Boyd Smith (2008)
A brief diary written between the years 1882 and 1889.
Author(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Illustrator(s):
None
Show and Tell: Exploring the Fine Art of Children’s Book Illustration (2008)
Profiles twelve contemporary children’s book illustrators.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Dilys Evans
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner
Et al
Betsy and the Great World and Betsy’s Wedding (2009)
Betsy spends a year in Europe and Joe is waiting for her on the dock when she returns.
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Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
Betsy Was a Junior and Betsy and Joe (2009)
Betsy’s junior and senior years at Deep Valley High.
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Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
Heaven to Betsy and Betsy in Spite of Herself (2009)
Betsy and Tacy’s first two years of high school.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
Talking Animals and Others: The Life and Work of Walter R. Brooks (2009)
A biography of Walter R. Brooks, the creator of Freddy the Pig and Mr. Ed.
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Author(s):
Michael Cart
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Carney’s House Party and Winona’s Pony Cart (2010)
Carney hosts a house party after her first year at college.
Winona hopes for a pony for her birthday.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
Show Me a Story! Why Picture Books Matter: Conversations with 21 of the Worlds’s Most Celebrated Illustrators (2012)
Interviews with twenty-one illustrators of children’s books.
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Author(s):
None
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner
Et al
Under the North Light (2012)
A joint biography of the author-illustrators.
Author(s):
Lawrence Webster
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Berta and Elmer Hader: A Lifetime of Art (2013)
An artistic biography of two prominent children’s book authors and illustrators.
Author(s):
Joy Hoerner Rich
Karen Tolley
John M. Waller
Judy Waller
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Randolph Caldecott the Man Who Could Not Stop Drawing (2013)
A brief critical biography of the famous illustrator.
Author(s):
Leonard S. Marcus
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Bring on the Girls (2014)
Plum (lyrics) and Guy (book) reminisce about their years as kings of Broadway musical comedy. This is the revised text from the 1954 Herbert Jenkins, Ltd. edition.
Author(s):
Guy Bolton
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Andrzej Klimwoski
Photographs
Gustaf Tenggren - En Biografi (2014)
The first biography of illustrator Gustaf Tenggren, in Swedish.
Author(s):
Oskar Ekman
Lars Emanuelsson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Performing Flea: A Self-Portrait in Letters (2014)
Comprises a selection of the letters Wodehouse wrote to Townend over a period of more than thirty years.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Andrzej Klimwoski
Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography (2014)
Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote her autobiography in 1930. It did not find a publisher but served as the basis for her subsequent series of Little House books. It is here published for the first time with copious annotations.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
None
Over Seventy: An Autobiography with Digressions (2015)
P.G. Wodehouse reminisces about his career in America.
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Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Andrzej Klimwoski
Storyteller: My Years with Ernest Thompson Seton (2015)
Author(s):
Leila Moss Knox
Linda L. Knox
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Drawn Together … In Art … In Love … In Friendships (2016)
A dual biography of the author-illustrators.
Author(s):
Sybilla A. Cook
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, 1842-1843 (2016)
As part of his education, his father required Richard Doyle to write a weekly letter about his experiences in London.
Author(s):
Richard Doyle
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Lois Lenski Storycatcher (2016)
A biography of the noted children’s book author and artist.
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Author(s):
Bobbie Malone
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski