Biographies and autobiographies

[Victoria]

Do you know of any good biographies or autobiographies that are appropriate for children to read?

It doesn't matter if they're fictional stories based on the lives of real people, semi-fictional historical biographies, or completely factual non-fiction biographies or autobiographies. Tell us about them below.

[Victoria]

An interesting series on the lives of various important women from history is Laurel A. Rockefeller's "Women Of World History" series.

The first book in the series is Boudicca: Britain's Queen of the Iceni.