List of Lower Elementary Biography Books

Biographies are great reads. They show a child the life of someone who changed the world somehow. Learn about a President’s childhood, why an astronaut wanted to go to outer space, and what made an explorer leave home. Here are list of biographies that can your lower elementary child get started reading about famous people.



A Picture Book of Anne Frank (Picture Book Biography) by David A. Adler
A Picture Book of Dwight David Eisenhower (Picture Book Biography) by David A. Adler
A Picture Book of Florence Nightingale (Picture Book Biography) by David A. Adler
A Picture Book of Harriet Beecher Stowe (Picture Book Biographies) by David A. Adler
A Picture Book of Jesse Owens (Picture Book Biography) by David A. Adler
A Picture Book of Robert E. Lee (Picture Book Biography) by David A. Adler
A Picture Book of Sacagawea (Picture Book Biographies) by David A. Adler
A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth (Picture Book Biography) by David A. Adler
Abraham Lincoln (Rookie Biographies) by Wil Mara
Alexander Graham Bell (Rookie Biographies) by Wil Mara
Anne Frank (Rookie Biographies) by Wil Mara
Benjamin Franklin (Rookie Biographies) by Wil Mara
Benjamin Franklin: Writer, Inventor, Statesman (Biographies (Picture Window Books)) by Pamela Hill Nettleton
Cesar Chavez (Rookie Biographies) by Susan Eddy
My First Biography: Christopher Columbus by Marion Dane Bauer
Clara Barton (First Biographies (Capstone Paperback)) by Lola M. Schaefer
Colin Powell (Rookie Biographies) by Wil Mara
Dr. Seuss (Rookie Biographies) by Dana Meachen Rau
Ellen Ochoa (Rookie Biographies) by Elizabeth Dana Jaffe
Florence Nightingale (On My Own Biographies) by Shannon Knudsen
Franklin D. Roosevelt (Rookie Biographies) by Wil Mara
George Washington: A Picture Book Biography by James Giblin
George Washington (Rookie Biographies) by Wil Mara
George Washington -- Soldier, Hero, President (DK Readers, Level 3: Reading Alone) by Ron Fontes
George Washington Carver (Rookie Biographies) by Lynea Bowdish
Harriet Tubman (Rookie Biographies) by Wil Mara
Helen Keller (Rookie Biographies) by Sean Dolan
John Adams Speaks for Freedom (Ready-to-Read Level 3) by Deborah Hopkinson
John F. Kennedy (Rookie Biographies) by Veda Boyd Jones
Lady Liberty: A Biography by Matt Tavares
Laura Ingalls Wilder (Rookie Biographies) by Wil Mara
Lewis and Clark (Rookie Biographies) by Lisa Wade McCormick
Marie Curie: Prize-Winning Scientist (Biographies (Picture Window Books)) by Lori Mortensen
Martha Washington (On My Own Biographies)by Candice Ransom
My First Biography: Martin Luther King, Jr. by Marion Dane Bauer
Martin Luther King Jr. (Rookie Biographies) by Wil Mara
Michael Jordan (Rookie Biographies) by Lisa Wade McCormick
Mother Teresa (Rookie Biographies) by Susan Eddy
Mozart (Famous Children) by Ann Rachlin
Nathan Hale: Patriot Spy (On My Own Biographies) by Shannon Knudsen
Neil Armstrong (Rookie Biographies) by Dana Meachen Rau
Nelson Mandela (Rookie Biographies) by Karima Grant
Pablo Picasso (On My Own Biographies) by Linda Lowery
Paul Revere (Rookie Biographies) by Wil Mara
Peter Tchaikovsky (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) by Mike Venezia
Pocahontas (Rookie Biographies) by Nancy Polette
Pocahontas and the Strangers (Scholastic Biography) by Clyde Robert Bulla
Sitting Bull (Rookie Biographies) by Susan Evento
Thomas Jefferson: A Picture Book Biography by James Giblin
Time For Kids: Henry Ford by Editors Of Time For Kids
Young Amelia Earhart - Pbk (Troll First-Start Biography) by Susan Alcott
Young Christopher Columbus: Discoverer of New Worlds (First-Start Biographies) by Eric Carpenter
Young Jackie Robinson - Pbk (Troll First-Start Biography) by Edward Farrell
Young Pocahontas - Pbk (Troll First-Start Biography) by Anne Benjamin