Where’s THEIR Book? Ten Historical Figures I’d Like To See in Picture Book Biographies

It wasn’t that long ago that biographical subjects in picture books were limited to the already famous. If you wanted to do, say, a picture book on Peg Leg Bates, you were likely to run into a publisher saying, “Sorry. There’s already one out there. Pick someone else.” Frankly, you’d have a much better chance of getting your book published if it was on Keller/Lincoln/Tubman/Earhardt/Einstein/Edison.

But that’s all changed now, hasn’t it? This year alone I’ve seen extraordinary picture books ...