Describes the life and achievements of the Italian woman doctor who developed a revolutionary method of educating children.
Mammolina: A Story About Maria Montessori
Biography – Autobiography- Memoir
A Family Called Bronte (People In Focus)
Presents the lives of the talented Bronte family members.
A Picture Book Of Louis Braille
Presents the life of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used throughout the world by the blind.
Mary Anning’s Curiosity
A fictionalized retelling of the childhood of Mary Anning, one of the world’s greatest fossilists.
Peter In Peril
A moving graphic novel telling the true story of a young boy caught up in the terror of World War Two. Peter is just an ordinary boy, who loves playing football with his friends and eating cake – until war comes to his city and the whole family have to go into hiding… This moving, true story of the Second World War, set in Budapest, Hungary, shows in vivid words and pictures how Peter, his cousin Eva and his mum and dad bravely struggle to survive in a city torn apart by warfare.
Ada Byron Lovelace
A biography of the British noblewoman whose additions to her translation of an account of Charles Babbage’s calculating machine became the first computer program.
Aung San Suu Kyi: Fearless Voice of Burma
A biography of the Burmese leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 while under house arrest.
Behind The Mask: The Life Of Queen Elizabeth I
A biography of Elizabeth I that describes her triumphant reign as well as the childhood that shaped the woman she became. A behind-the-scenes look at Gloriana that discusses her childhood, how she overcame opposition to become queen and her subsequent manipulation of people, the court and foreigners to attain greatness. Elizabeth I (1533-1603) impressed herself more vividly on the memory of the world than any other monarch in the history of England. She successfully established and maintained power while refusing to bow to the wishes of those who believed no woman was fit to occupy the English throne. This biography describes the opulent but cruel childhood that shaped the woman Elizabeth became and details her triumphant reign, as well as the unrelenting forces that opposed her. Exploring the answers to some of history’s most persistent and intriguing questions, Jane Resh Thomas has created a compelling account of Elizabeth’s life that shatters the myths surrounding her and allows readers an unprecedented view of the queen as a human being. Full-color insert, chronology, bibliography, index.
Buddha
Leaving the palace where he had been sheltered from a prediction that destined him to be a holy man, Prince Siddhartha sees for the first time the suffering in the world, and begins the journey that transforms him into the Buddha.
Science Fiction Pioneer: A Story About Jules Verne (Creative Minds Biographies)
When Jules Verne was born in 1828, his family had his future planned out for him. They expected him to become a lawyer, but he dreamed of writing. He started out writing more traditional poetry and plays, but then he began to create a new, unconventional kind of fiction. It combined adventure, the modern world of science and invention, and his personal view of the future. With fantastical characters, spaceships to the moon, and deep-sea submarines, his books told of things that would not actually occur for decades.