Good Comics for Kids
August 18, 2024 by Betsy Bird
Add a great text and art from an illustrious artist and you’ve got on your hands a librarian biography that’s a cut above the rest. A book that surpasses its form. A tale worth telling.
February 16, 2024 by Betsy Bird
If you’re going to do a biography of a complicated subject, and bring any kind of nuance to the telling, then you better saddle up and pour your heart and soul into the effort. You’re going to have to make a book like this one.
December 26, 2023 by Betsy Bird
Today, I'm celebrating those biographies that focus on their subjects with a bit of creativity. The ones that could only tell their tales their own particular ways. Biographies for the masses! Biographies for the kids.
December 26, 2022 by Betsy Bird
Today, we're giving lesser known people their place in the sun while also acknowledging people with famous names who finally have picture book bios worthy of their fame.
July 21, 2022 by Betsy Bird
Today I present to you a slew of 2022 picture book bios, some out already and some yet to come, that are not blerg. They are not boring. They are boffo. Fantastic. Memorable. Cool.
December 26, 2021 by Betsy Bird
It's Biography Day! Here are the books that I feel did the greatest justice to their subjects. You'll see some familiar faces and some folks you've never even heard of. As it should be.
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December 26, 2020 by Betsy Bird
Each crop of yearly biographies runs the gamut from the uber famous to people who may not have ever even received an adult biography. I loved the sheer variety on display in 2020. Behold a sampling of some favorites.
August 20, 2020 by Betsy Bird
Drawing On Walls is the kind of book that you wish other writers of children’s nonfiction would read. A story that justifies its very existence by justifying the very existence of its subject.
December 26, 2019 by Betsy Bird
Some of the biographies you'll find on today's list are of people hitherto uncelebrated while others offer a new take on a familiar name. Here are the biographies produced for kids in 2019 that struck me as particularly choice. Bet there's at least one on here you haven't see before.
May 10, 2019 by Betsy Bird
The ideal use of great writing without cheating. Filled with facts and backmatter, it also makes the subject interesting to kids. It’s beautiful to look at and while I would have made some changes, it stands as a pretty darn good look at a man, a plan, a crayon. Crayola.
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