31 Days, 31 Lists: Day 26 – 2016 Unique Biographies for Kids

During the 2016 Boston Globe-Horn Book Colloquium Carol Boston Weatherford and Ekua Holmes spoke together about the art of writing about other people. During the speech they mentioned how part of their job is to break down “the canonical boundaries of biography.” Too often kids read the same biographies about the same people over and over again. The canon, such as it is. There were a bunch of perfectly good biographies out about those folks this year. I prefer the more obscure figures and the...