31 Days, 31 Lists: 2024 Biographies for Kids

The picture book biography is an art that I enjoy in great part thanks to the elasticity of the form. There are myriad ways to approach them. You can tell a life from birth to death. You can focus on a single event in childhood. You can discuss their life around the context of what they invented, wrote, drew, sang, etc. And thanks to innovations in the field, they don’t have to be famous people anymore. You can introduce the world to someone they should have known all along. This year, the b...