Marie Curie: A Photo-Illustrated Biography

by Greg Linder

Meet great leaders and innovators in this inspiring series. Enjoyable text describes the lasting impact of each of these remarkable people. Famous quotations give readers a sense of each person's character. Chronologies of their live support and clarify details and events. This series explores and supports the standard "The History of the United States: Democratic Principles and Values and People from Many Cultures Who Contributed to its Cultural, Economic, and Political Heritage," as required by the National Standards for History.

24 pages, Library Binding

First published April 1, 1999

Reviews

[Alexia Eller]

Summary: Marie Curie is a book about Marie Curie's life and about her being a scientist. The book talks about Marie's childhood in Poland, becoming a scientist, her fame and success, and saving lives. Marie Curie is known to be the most famous physicist. She studies matter and energy which led her to discover radium.

Evaluation: This book was actually very interesting to read and learn a lot of information about Marie Curie and what she did!


Teaching Idea: this would be a good book to use to teach biography.