On My Own Biography

Engage readers’ interest and imagination! These award-winning biographies feature full-page illustrations. Written in story format, each book features pivotal episodes that reveal what kind of person the subject is (or was) and how he or she came to be famous.

Cover: Vincent van Gogh
Cover: Clyde Tombaugh and the Search for Planet X
Cover: Will Rogers
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Alexander Graham Bell
Aunt Clara Brown: Official Pioneer
Babe Didrikson Zaharias: All-Around Athlete
Benjamin Banneker: Pioneering Scientist
Bessie Coleman: Daring to Fly
Booker T. Washington
Cesar Chavez
Clyde Tombaugh and the Search for Planet X
Daniel Boone
Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas
Florence Nightingale
George Washington Carver
Helen Keller
Jackie Robinson
Jesse Owens
John Brown
Johnny Appleseed
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Leif Eriksson
Margaret Bourke-White
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  • Soon! Spring 2025
  • New! Fall 2024
  • New! Spring 2024

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On My Own Biography

Engage readers’ interest and imagination! These award-winning biographies feature full-page illustrations. Written in story format, each book features pivotal episodes that reveal what kind of person the subject is (or was) and how he or she came to be famous. View →