Biographies: Life Stories

 

            It's a bad idea to expose children only to fictional stories. That's like serving a week's worth of meals that's all the same thing. Children need all kinds of literary genres in order to have a full meal. One of the best genres for kids is the biography - because they learn about character and history along with a rip-roaring good story.

            Here are some good biographies for late grade school and middle school that you might consider. You could read them to your child, have your child read them aloud to you, or buy two copies and read them separately and discuss them:

 

            An American Childhood, Annie Dillard

            A Girl from Yam Hill, Beverly Cleary

            Black Ice, Lorene Carey

            Circle of Quiet, Madeleine L'Engle

            The Summer of the Great-grandmother, ""

            Two-Part Invention, ""

            Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank

            Gifted Hands, Ben Carson, M.D.

            Lives of the Writers (20 of note)

            One Writer's Beginnings, Eudora Welty

            "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!" Richard Feynman

            Under the Eye of the Clock, Christopher Nolan

 

            By Susan Darst Williams • www.GoBigEd.com • Read to Me 010 • © 2006