Kevin Pariseau

Born to a family of farmers, Lincoln stood out from an early age—literally! (He was...

Everyone has heard of Albert Einstein-but what exactly did he do? How much do kids really...

In her amazing diary, Anne Frank revealed the challenges and dreams common for any young ...

Born a slave in Maryland, Harriet Tubman knew first-hand what it meant to be someone's pr...

Amelia Earhart was a woman of many "firsts." In 1932, she became the first woman to fly s...

The beloved plays of Shakespeare are still produced everywhere, yet the life of the world...

Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back!...

Our bestselling series is fit for a queen!The life of Queen Elizabeth I was dramatic and ...

Born in Austria in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his first piece of music, a min...

A humorist, narrator, and social observer, Mark Twain is unsurpassed in American literatu...

At age two, Helen Keller became deaf and blind. She lived in a world of silence and darkn...

Did you know that John Adams had to coax Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of...

With over 140 million copies in print, and serving as the principal proselytizing tool of...

You want girl power? Meet Annie Oakley! Born in 1860, she became one of the best-loved an...

From his childhood in rural Illinois to moviemaking days in Hollywood and on to a career ...

Leonardo da Vinci was a gifted painter, talented musician, and dedicated scientist and in...

Ever since Howard Carter uncovered King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, the young phara...

Put on your blue suede shoes and get ready for another addition to the Who Was…? s...

The man who saved the lives of his PT-109 crewmen during WWII and became the 35th preside...

One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandes...

Every kid has heard of Harry Houdini, the famous magician who could escape from handcuffs...

Called the "Great Pathfinder", Daniel Boone is most famous for opening up the West to set...

If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musi...

When Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain in 1519, he believed he cou...

Almost everyone can sing along with the Beatles, but how many young readers know their wh...

For a long time, the main role of First Ladies was to act as hostesses of the White House...

As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded for conducting “u...

The perfect biography to "bite into" at the start of a new school year! Children are sure...