Picture Books About Great Men

1.
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams 4.11 avg rating — 2,603 ratings
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Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad 4.49 avg rating — 16,554 ratings
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Ron's Big Mission
Ron's Big Mission
by: Rose Blue
4.40 avg rating — 1,235 ratings
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Patrick: Patron Saint of Ireland
Patrick: Patron Saint of Ireland 4.10 avg rating — 1,118 ratings
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Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci
Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci 4.06 avg rating — 618 ratings
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Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez 4.19 avg rating — 2,183 ratings
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Strong
Strong 4.34 avg rating — 367 ratings
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The Crayon Man: the True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons
The Crayon Man: the True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons 4.37 avg rating — 2,113 ratings
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Johnny Appleseed: A Tall Tale
Johnny Appleseed: A Tall Tale 3.98 avg rating — 2,520 ratings
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Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark 4.12 avg rating — 6,056 ratings
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The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus 4.07 avg rating — 6,647 ratings
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The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon
The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon 4.17 avg rating — 970 ratings
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Saint Francis of Assisi: A Life of Joy
Saint Francis of Assisi: A Life of Joy 4.18 avg rating — 147 ratings
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The Darkest Dark
The Darkest Dark 4.27 avg rating — 2,643 ratings
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Handel, Who Knew What He Liked
Handel, Who Knew What He Liked 4.05 avg rating — 240 ratings
16.
Magic Ramen: The Story of Momofuku Ando
Magic Ramen: The Story of Momofuku Ando 4.32 avg rating — 1,475 ratings
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John Ronald's Dragons: The Story of J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald's Dragons: The Story of J. R. R. Tolkien 4.43 avg rating — 1,101 ratings
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Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas
Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas 4.23 avg rating — 490 ratings
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Just Like Rube Goldberg: The Incredible True Story of the Man Behind the Machines
Just Like Rube Goldberg: The Incredible True Story of the Man Behind the Machines 4.17 avg rating — 594 ratings
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George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver 4.18 avg rating — 256 ratings
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To Go Singing Through the World: The Childhood of Pablo Neruda
To Go Singing Through the World: The Childhood of Pablo Neruda 4.42 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Crazy Horse's Vision
Crazy Horse's Vision 4.05 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Pippo the Fool
Pippo the Fool 4.07 avg rating — 235 ratings
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Leonardo's Horse
Leonardo's Horse 4.12 avg rating — 362 ratings
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Morris and Buddy: The Story of the First Seeing Eye Dog
Morris and Buddy: The Story of the First Seeing Eye Dog 4.17 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave 4.13 avg rating — 5,535 ratings
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Walt Whitman: Words for America
Walt Whitman: Words for America 4.04 avg rating — 304 ratings
28.
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra 4.16 avg rating — 3,428 ratings
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Smile: How Young Charlie Chaplin Taught the World to Laugh
Smile: How Young Charlie Chaplin Taught the World to Laugh 3.69 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Stand Up and Sing!: Pete Seeger, Folk Music, and the Path to Justice
Stand Up and Sing!: Pete Seeger, Folk Music, and the Path to Justice 4.18 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Karl, Get Out of the Garden!: Carolus Linnaeus and the Naming of Everything
Karl, Get Out of the Garden!: Carolus Linnaeus and the Naming of Everything 4.34 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Follow the Dream: The Story of Christopher Columbus
Follow the Dream: The Story of Christopher Columbus 3.68 avg rating — 250 ratings
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Columbus
Columbus
by: Demi
3.93 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Abe's Fish: A Boyhood Tale of Abraham Lincoln
Abe's Fish: A Boyhood Tale of Abraham Lincoln 4.06 avg rating — 109 ratings
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The Man Who Made Parks: The Story of Parkbuilder Frederick Law Olmsted
The Man Who Made Parks: The Story of Parkbuilder Frederick Law Olmsted 4.16 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau
The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau 4.12 avg rating — 1,171 ratings
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Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau
Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau 4.15 avg rating — 1,834 ratings
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln 4.08 avg rating — 3,188 ratings
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Thomas Paine and the Dangerous Word
Thomas Paine and the Dangerous Word 4.29 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark 4.26 avg rating — 1,934 ratings
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Terry Fox (Volume 86) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 92)
Terry Fox (Volume 86) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 92) 4.30 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Revolutionary Friends: General George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette
Revolutionary Friends: General George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette 3.69 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Terry Fox and Me
Terry Fox and Me 4.49 avg rating — 108 ratings
44.
From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World
From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World 4.20 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Meet David Suzuki
Meet David Suzuki 4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Most Wanted: The Revolutionary Partnership of John Hancock & Samuel Adams
Most Wanted: The Revolutionary Partnership of John Hancock & Samuel Adams 4.16 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Discovered Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Discovered Egyptian Hieroglyphs 4.07 avg rating — 369 ratings
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Buddha
Buddha
by: Demi
4.17 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354
Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354 4.06 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Quiet Hero: The Ira Hayes Story
Quiet Hero: The Ira Hayes Story 4.15 avg rating — 67 ratings
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My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 4.31 avg rating — 2,038 ratings
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Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop 4.04 avg rating — 797 ratings
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Jesus
Jesus
by: Demi
3.94 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His People
Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His People 4.19 avg rating — 234 ratings
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A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation 4.43 avg rating — 1,041 ratings
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Gandhi
Gandhi
by: Demi
3.96 avg rating — 301 ratings
57.
Muhammad
Muhammad
by: Demi
3.96 avg rating — 261 ratings
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George Washington's Birthday: A Mostly True Tale
George Washington's Birthday: A Mostly True Tale 3.78 avg rating — 283 ratings
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The Legend of Lao Tzu and the Tao Te Ching
The Legend of Lao Tzu and the Tao Te Ching
by: Demi
3.84 avg rating — 109 ratings
60.
Monsieur Marceau: Actor Without Words
Monsieur Marceau: Actor Without Words 3.92 avg rating — 772 ratings
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Ben Franklin's Big Splash: The Mostly True Story of His First Invention
Ben Franklin's Big Splash: The Mostly True Story of His First Invention 3.92 avg rating — 474 ratings
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The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth
The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth 3.90 avg rating — 588 ratings
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John Brown: His Fight for Freedom
John Brown: His Fight for Freedom 3.99 avg rating — 290 ratings
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The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks
The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks 4.12 avg rating — 1,232 ratings
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Action Jackson
Action Jackson 3.90 avg rating — 452 ratings
66.
The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau
The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau 4.18 avg rating — 688 ratings
67.
I am Walt Disney
I am Walt Disney 4.41 avg rating — 546 ratings
68.
Mr. Gauguin's Heart
Mr. Gauguin's Heart 3.71 avg rating — 58 ratings
68.
Mission to Space
Mission to Space 3.82 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo da Vinci
Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo da Vinci 4.01 avg rating — 329 ratings
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Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery that Baffled All of France
Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery that Baffled All of France 4.22 avg rating — 1,645 ratings
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Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin
Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin 4.23 avg rating — 1,160 ratings
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The Champion of Children: The Story of Janusz Korczak
The Champion of Children: The Story of Janusz Korczak 3.97 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Mr. Ferris and His Wheel
Mr. Ferris and His Wheel 4.25 avg rating — 2,098 ratings
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The Boy Whose Head Was Filled With Stars: A Story About Edwin Hubble
The Boy Whose Head Was Filled With Stars: A Story About Edwin Hubble 4.28 avg rating — 293 ratings
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In the Belly of an Ox: The Unexpected Photographic Adventures of Richard and Cherry Kearton
In the Belly of an Ox: The Unexpected Photographic Adventures of Richard and Cherry Kearton 4.22 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity: A Tale of the Genius Ramanujan
The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity: A Tale of the Genius Ramanujan 3.74 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Doctor Esperanto and the Language of Hope
Doctor Esperanto and the Language of Hope 3.96 avg rating — 142 ratings
78.
A Life Electric: The Story of Nikola Tesla
A Life Electric: The Story of Nikola Tesla 4.27 avg rating — 233 ratings
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Hokusai: The Man Who Painted a Mountain
Hokusai: The Man Who Painted a Mountain 3.97 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Dinosaur Mountain: Digging into the Jurassic Age
Dinosaur Mountain: Digging into the Jurassic Age 3.89 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Flower Hunter: William Bartram, America's First Naturalist
The Flower Hunter: William Bartram, America's First Naturalist really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 68 ratings
83.
Down the Colorado: John Wesley Powell, the One-Armed Explorer
Down the Colorado: John Wesley Powell, the One-Armed Explorer 4.06 avg rating — 88 ratings
84.
Through the Wardrobe: How C. S. Lewis Created Narnia
Through the Wardrobe: How C. S. Lewis Created Narnia 4.31 avg rating — 272 ratings
85.
Before There Was Mozart: The Story of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George
Before There Was Mozart: The Story of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George 4.01 avg rating — 174 ratings
86.
Shackleton's Journey
Shackleton's Journey 4.31 avg rating — 1,194 ratings
87.
Miguel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote
Miguel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote 4.14 avg rating — 217 ratings
88.
Grandfather Gandhi
Grandfather Gandhi 4.09 avg rating — 1,566 ratings
89.
Be the Change: A Grandfather Gandhi Story
Be the Change: A Grandfather Gandhi Story 4.17 avg rating — 351 ratings
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A Boy, a Mouse, and a Spider: The Story of E. B. White
A Boy, a Mouse, and a Spider: The Story of E. B. White 4.20 avg rating — 735 ratings
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The Extraordinary Mark Twain
The Extraordinary Mark Twain 3.98 avg rating — 987 ratings
92.
Becoming Bach
Becoming Bach 3.89 avg rating — 353 ratings
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The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 3.98 avg rating — 1,114 ratings
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Bambino and Mr. Twain
Bambino and Mr. Twain 3.76 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Manjiro: The Boy Who Risked His Life for Two Countries
Manjiro: The Boy Who Risked His Life for Two Countries really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Fascinating: The Life of Leonard Nimoy
Fascinating: The Life of Leonard Nimoy 4.12 avg rating — 390 ratings
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Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History
Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History 4.33 avg rating — 371 ratings
98.
Toussaint L'ouverture: The Fight for Haiti's Freedom
Toussaint L'ouverture: The Fight for Haiti's Freedom 4.11 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal
Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal 4.05 avg rating — 3,511 ratings
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A Voyage in the Clouds: The (Mostly) True Story of the First International Flight by Balloon in 1785
A Voyage in the Clouds: The (Mostly) True Story of the First International Flight by Balloon in 1785 3.77 avg rating — 469 ratings
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