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Biography Genre
Books in the Biography genre:
On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937)
In the fourth volume of her history Laura and the Ingalls family move to Minnesota and live in a dugout on the banks of Plum Creek.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
Sunset House (1937)
More adventures of two English expatriates in Provence.
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Author(s):
Winifred Fortescue
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Young Brontës: Charlotte and Emily, Branwell and Anne (1938)
A history of the Brontë siblings between 1825 and 1830.
Author(s):
Mary Louise Jarden
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Ben and Me (1939)
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939)
Pa takes a job on the railroad and move Ma, Laura, Mary, Carrie and Grace to the Dakota Territory where they spend the winter in a surveyor’s shanty.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
Columbus Sails (1939)
Biography of Columbus as told by those who knew him best.
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Author(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
The Long Winter (1940)
The Indians warn that there will be a hard winter so Pa moves Ma, Laura, Mary, Carrie and Grace to his store building in town for the winter.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
They Were Strong and Good (1940)
Robert Lawson tells the story of his parents and grandparents, and illustrates it too.
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Four Years in Paradise (1941)
The story of Johnson's protracted stay at Lake Paradise in Kenya.
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Author(s):
Osa Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In (1942)
Author(s):
Esther Forbes
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Peter the Great (1943)
A biography of the Russian Tsar who built St. Petersburg on the Baltic Sea as his new capital.
Author(s):
Nina B. Baker
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
These Happy Golden Years (1943)
In the eighth book of her biography Laura Ingalls becomes Mrs. Almanzo Wilder.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
Garibaldi (1944)
A biography of the Italian revolutionary.
Author(s):
Nina B. Baker
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Daniel Boone (1945)
A brief biography of the American backwoodsman and explorer who opened up the west. In this edition, the text has been considerably enlarged.
Author(s):
Esther Averill
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Door Opens (1945)
The author records childhood memories of growing up in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Author(s):
Ernst Lothar
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Fo’castle Waltz (1945)
The artist ships out for the Argentine.
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Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Lenin (1945)
Lenin along with Hitler, Mao, and his successor Stalin was one of the greatest monsters of the twentieth century.
Author(s):
Nina B. Baker
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Tux ’n Tails (1945)
A humorous inside look at the life of a waiter.
Author(s):
Raymond Andrieux
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
America’s Paul Revere (1946)
A vivid history of one of America’s best-loved patriots.
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Author(s):
Esther Forbes
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Great White Hills of New Hampshire (1946)
A regional memoir by a war correspondent about New Hampshire in the early twentieth century.
Author(s):
Ernest Poole
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Magic Footstool (1946)
This is a collection of short biographies suitable for elementary grades.
Author(s):
Victoria Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
At That Time (1947)
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Racundra’s First Cruise (1948)
A account of the author’s cruise in the Baltic on a small two masted yacht with his wife (former secretary to Lenin) and a local seaman, the prototype of Peter Duck.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Arthur Ransome
Enter David Garrick (1951)
A biography of the eighteenth century British actor-manager.
Author(s):
Anna Bird Stewart
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
John Wesley (1951)
A brief biography of the Protestant founder of Methodism.
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Author(s):
May McNeer
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Queen Elizabeth (1951)
A biography of “Good” Queen Bess, intended for elementary schools.
Author(s):
Jeannette Covert Nolan
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
Bring on the Girls (1953)
Plum (lyrics) and Guy (book) reminisce about their years as kings of Broadway musical comedy.
Author(s):
Guy Bolton
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Paul Bacon
Little House in the Big Woods (1953)
In this, the first volume of her family saga, Laura Ingalls is living with Pa and Ma, Mary and Carrie in the Big Woods of Wisconsin near Lake Pepin.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Little House on the Prairie (1953)
In the second book of the Little House series, Pa takes the family and sets out for Indian Territory to stake a claim.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Long Winter (1953)
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Martin Luther (1953)
The story of the man who risked his life many times to cry out against the abuses within the church.
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Author(s):
May McNeer
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
My Friend Yakub (1953)
Author(s):
Nicholas Kalashnikoff
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
On the Banks of Plum Creek (1953)
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Performing Flea: A Self-Portrait in Letters (1953)
Comprises a selection of the letters Wodehouse wrote to Townend over a period of more than thirty years.
Author(s):
William Townend
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
None
These Happy Golden Years (1953)
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Great People Through the Ages (1954)
A collection of short biographies of people every child should know.
Author(s):
Albert Hitchcock
L. J. Hitchcock
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Livingstone the Pathfinder (1954)
Author(s):
Basil Mathews
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Going to the Wars (1955)
Author(s):
John Verney
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
Papa Married a Mormon (1955)
Author(s):
John D. Fitzgerald
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Prairie-Town Boy (1955)
An autobiographical account of the author's boyhood in the Midwest.
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Author(s):
Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s):
Joe Krush
The Suburban Child (1955)
Memories of the author’s childhood in South London.
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Author(s):
James Kenward
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
America, I Like You (1956)
P.G. Wodehouse shares his feelings after moving to the United States.
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Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Marc Simont
Drawn from Memory (1957)
Author(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Over Seventy: An Autobiography with Digressions (1957)
P.G. Wodehouse reminisces about his career in America.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
None
Sugar for the Horse (1957)
More stories about he author’s deplorable Uncle Silas.
Author(s):
H. E. Bates
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Best in Children’s Books Volume 18 (1959)
The Godstone and the Blackymor (1959)
Author(s):
T. H. White
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Works of Anne Frank (1959)
This edition includes Anne Frank’s stories and essays as well as her diary.
Author(s):
Anne Frank
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
The Boyhoods of Great Composers Book One (1960)
Short biographies of the youth of composers, including Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Grieg and Elgar.
Author(s):
Catherine Gough
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Cora Crane (1960)
A Biography of Mrs. Stephen Crane.
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Author(s):
Lillian Gilkes
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Every Advantage (1961)
A semi-autobiographical book of John Verney.
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Author(s):
John Verney
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
My Friend Yakub (1961)
The author describes his boyhood in a small Siberian village and his friend Yacub, a Tartar storyteller.
Author(s):
Nicholas Kalashnikoff
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
America’s Mark Twain (1962)
Author(s):
May McNeer
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Author! Author! (1962)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
None
Drawn from Life (1962)
Author(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Story of Let’s Make an Opera (1962)
The story of a theatrical entertainment by Benjamin Britten in which he shows how he wrote and prepared an opera, then presented the short children’s opera The Little Sweep.
Author(s):
Eric Crozier
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Boyhoods of Great Composers Book Two (1963)
Short biographies covering the youth of famous composers. This volume includes Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Verdi, Tchaikovsky and Vaughan Williams.
Author(s):
Catherine Gough
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Education by Uncles (1966)
Author(s):
Abigail Adams Homans
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Photographs
Long ago when I was Young (1966)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1967)
The story of a twelve days’ hiking and expedition in the south of France.
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Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Young Ardizzone (1970)
An autobiography of the illustrator’s youth.
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Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The First Four Years (1971)
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Diary of a War Artist (1974)
As a combat artist in World War II, Ardizzone kept a diary and sketchbook.
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
James Henry Daugherty (1975)
A short biography and a very complete bibliography of the artist-author.
Author(s):
Edward Kemp
Elaine Kemp
Lynd Ward
Et al
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Ardizzone’s Kilvert (1976)
Extracts from the diary of an English clergyman in the nineteenth century. He died at the age of thirty-nine in 1879.
Author(s):
Francis Kilvert
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Joan of Arc (1980)
Author(s):
Maurice Boutet de Monvel
Illustrator(s):
Maurice Boutet de Monvel
Self-Portrait (1982)
The illustrator of such well-known books as "Charlotte's Web" and "Stuart Little" talks about his life and work.
Author(s):
Garth Williams
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Indian Diary (1984)
The artist was sent to India by UNESCO to teach a course in silk screen printing and here records his impressions.
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Long ago when I was Young (1987)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
George Buchanan
Sir Francis Drake: His Daring Deeds (1988)
Author(s):
Roy Gerrard
Illustrator(s):
Roy Gerrard
Jane Austen’s Manuscript Letters in Facsimile (1990)
Reprints facsimiles of all of Jane Austen’s known letters.
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Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
None
Jane Austen’s Letters (1995)
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Deirdre Le Faye
Illustrator(s):
None
The Little Chair (1996)
Something about the children who have sat in the little chair - good and bad.
Author(s):
Rumer Godden
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Children’s Book of America (1998)
Short essays on American history, biographies, poems and folk tales.
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Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
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.
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Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
The Children’s Book of Home and Family (2002)
A collection of stories and poems dealing with families.
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Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
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
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
Over Seventy: An Autobiography with Digressions (2015)
P.G. Wodehouse reminisces about his career in America.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Andrzej Klimwoski