Biography picture book recommendations are by Angela Ferraris, The Retired School Librarian.
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The Curious Life of Cecilia Payne: Discovering the Stuff of Stars
by Laura Alary (Author), Yas Imamura (Illustrator)
Brief summary: This picture book biography is told in a narrative nonfiction style of writing beginning with an eight-year-old Cecilia curiously examining nature around her in the countryside until she moved to London to study. She excitedly received a scholarship to the University of Cambridge but found women were not taken seriously. She moved across the Atlantic Ocean to attend Harvard where she found other women called the Harvard Computers studying the stars.
Comments: The backmatter has more information such as the Author’s Note, Cecilia’s Curious Life(timeline), Reaching for the Stars, More About Cecilia’s World, and Honors and Awards Given to Cecilia Payne.
This biography picture book was very well researched with gouache and watercolor illustrations that complement and push the story as it is explained.
I recommend this as an excellent STEAM resource for intermediate elementary and middle school students. It’s a perfect addition to units on women in science or space exploration.
Rating: 5/5 📗📗📗📗
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Saint Patrick the Forgiver: The History and Legends of Ireland’s Bishop
by Ned Bustard (Author). Publisher : IVP Kids. 2023. PreK-3. Hardcover narrative nonfiction picture book . ISBN-13 : 978-1514007242
Brief summary: If you are looking for more of a religious story about Saint Patrick, this is the book. “Hello, my name is Patrick. You may have heard my story. I walked the span of Ireland to tell of God’s great glory.” Young readers will learn about Saint Patrick’s life as a child, being kidnapped to become a slave in Ireland and his escape back home. Saint Patrick continues to tell the reader how he forgave the Irish people and decided to preach Christianity there. The story is shared through the viewpoint of a saint. Told in rhyme.
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Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗
Saint Valentine the Kindhearted: The History and Legends of God’s Brave and Loving Servant
by Ned Bustard (Author)
Brief summary: A young Valentine lived in Terni, Italy, around 226 AD, practicing Christianity while living amongst Romans who believed in several gods and goddesses.
He restored the sight of a judge’s daughter. This impressed the judge so much that he converted to Christianity along with his family. Emperor Claudius put Saint Valentine in prison, where he wrote love letters. He died on February 14th.
Comments: This story is written in rhyming verse. The story is on the right side, while an illustration with woodcuts is on the left.
There is A Note From the Author.
The hearts that are throughout the story symbolize the different types of love.
- ❤️(eros)–romantic love
- 💚(storge)–natural love, the kind that family members have for one another
- 💙(philia) love for a close friend
- 🤍(agape) pure and unconditional love
Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗
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Extraordinary Magic: The Storytelling Life of Virginia Hamilton
by Nina Crews (Author)
Brief summary: This collection of lyrical poetry shares Virginia Hamilton’s childhood, family, and writing inspirations.
Comments: The back sections include the Author’s Note, Timeline, Book List, Bibliography, and a few photos.
The illustrations were created digitally using Adobe Photoshop.
Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗
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A Fine Little Bad Boy
by Barbara Lowell (Author), Antonio Marinoni (Illustrator)
Brief summary: This narrative nonfiction biographical picture book tells the story of Quentin Roosevelt, the youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt. It highlights his mischievous antics while living in the White House, including roller skating in the halls, shooting spitballs at hanging artwork, and having water gun fights.
Comments: There are two pages in the back sharing more about Quentin Roosevelt.
I believe this book is better suited for 3-6 year olds rather than 9-12 year olds.
Reading it aloud with an adult can foster meaningful conversations and engagement among young listeners about good and bad behavior.
Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2
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Guts for Glory: The Story of Civil War Soldier Rosetta Wakeman
by Joanna Lapati (author and illustrator)
Brief summary: Rosetta Wakeman, the oldest of nine siblings, lived on a farm in Afton, New York. Tired of doing household work and caring for her siblings, she cut her hair and dressed like a man, calling herself Lyons Wakeman. After working as a canaller for a while, she enlisted in the 153rd New York State Volunteers to fight in the Civil War at Pleasant Hill on April 8, 1864.
Will anyone find out she is a woman? Does she die in battle?
Comments: This is a very well-written and researched picture book.
The artwork is scratchboard and digital materials. It is explained in detail in the About the Art of how this was all done. Art teachers could use this book as a reference for scratchboard units of study.
Other back sections are Glossary, Author’s Note(includes her research), More About Rosetta Wakeman and the Civil War(includes her photo in uniform and her tombstone), A Timeline of Events, Rosetta Wakeman’s Letters(1862-1864), and the Endpaper Glossary(explaining the objects carried by soldiers).
Rating: 5/5 📗📗📗📗📗
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The Snow Man: A True Story
by Jonah Winter (Author), Jeanette Winter (Illustrator)
Brief summary: billy barr (he prefers all small letters) lives ALONE in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, eight miles from the nearest town. He first moved there as a college student in 1972 for the summer. He lived in an abandoned shack with dirt floors and no electricity or running water. He began to take meticulous notes of all of the wildlife and weather of the mountains.
He stayed for fifty-one years and is still there.
The scientists at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory used his notes and observations, all written in notebooks, to chart how the mountains’ climate was changing. He still takes notes but enters them into a computer.
Comments: There is an Author’s Note in the back explaining billy barr in more detail.
I had so many questions while reading this biography. Why is he a hermit? What made him go there? Why did he stay so long? Would I want to live like that? What would that be like? Can I get my library up there? And could I bring all of my cats?
This biography picture book could spark some interesting classroom discussions.
Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗
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Ordinary Days: The Seeds, Sound, and City That Grew Prince Rogers Nelson
by Angela Joy (Author), Jacqueline Alcántara (Illustrator)
Brief summary: Prince Rogers Nelson was named after his father’s jazz band, The Prince Rogers Trio. He had parents who constantly argued resulting in his father leaving when Prince was age 7.
Prince lived in poverty, sleeping on couches in various homes, not having his own place. He excelled at playing basketball as well as playing the piano, guitar, and other instruments.
While still in high school, he created a cover band named Grand Central that played at parties, nightclubs, and the Battle of the Bands. Prince got his first recording contract at the age of 18.
This rhyming and rhythmic picture book did not give details of Prince’s life as an adult, the success of his music, or how he died.
Comments: The author’s note details Prince’s life, including a family playlist. The illustrations really capture Prince’s personality with a hue of purple throughout.
I recall being in the Music Conservatory when Prince came out in the 1980s. His music played in the dorms and in the stores. People went to his movies to see him perform. I recall watching Purple Rain and Under the Cherry Moon. That was when we had Walkmans, and I remember having the soundtrack to Purple Rain and listening to it all the time. People liked his Minneapolis sound a lot.
Rating: 5/5 📗📗📗📗📗
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Gifts from Georgia’s Garden: How Georgia O’Keeffe Nourished Her Art
by Lisa Robinson (Author), Hadley Hooper (Illustrator)
Brief summary: Georgia O’Keeffe is known for her stunning paintings of flowers and wildlife in New Mexico. This narrative nonfiction picture book emphasizes and explores how she cultivated her own sustainable garden using water conservation, companion planting, and composting.
Comments: Reading a book about an artist’s life rather than their art was a refreshing change.
The back sections explain how Georgia O’Keefe gardened and includes two of her recipes.
The illustrations were created with pen, paint, and paper and assembled in Photoshop.
Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗
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A Grand Idea: How William J. Wilgus Created Grand Central Terminal
by Megan Hoyt (Author), David Szalay (Illustrator)
Brief summary: In 1902, Manhattan was full of people from all over the country visiting by train. A terrible train collision caused William J. Wilgus, a chief engineer, to devise a better plan to reduce and organize all of the train traffic to prevent any more accidents.
In this narrative nonfiction picture book, young readers will learn how he created this magnificent railroad station called Grand Central Terminal.
Comments: The back sections include information about William J. Wilgus and the Grand Central Terminal, fascinating facts about the terminal, a timeline, and sources.
The illustrations were created digitally with Adobe Photoshop.
Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗
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Pedal, Balance, Steer: Annie Londonderry, the First Woman to Cycle Around the World
by Vivian Kirkfield (Author), Alison Jay (Illustrator)
Brief summary: Annie Londonderry saw an ad in 1894 promising $10,000 to the first woman to travel around the globe on a bike. She taught herself to ride a bike and set off, following the rules of speaking English, accepting no donations, and earning $5,000 while traveling.
Comments: This inspirational narrative nonfiction picture book shares the story of an incredibly brave woman who overcame obstacles and injuries, persevered to win a bet, and was motivated by providing a better life for her children.
The back sections include an Author’s Note, Brakes, Bloomers, and Other Bicycle Bits, a Timeline, and a Bibliography.
The illustrations are created with alkyd oil paint on paper with varnish.
Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗
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The Fabulous Fannie Farmer: Kitchen Scientist and America’s Cook
by Emma Bland Smith (Author), Susan Reagan (Illustrator)
Brief summary: In the late 1800s, Fannie Farmer developed a passion for cooking. Despite contracting polio at the age of sixteen, she enrolled in the Boston Cooking School, where she excelled and eventually became the principal. Fannie’s teaching focused on precise measurements and exact cooking methods, ensuring success for home cooks.
She rewrote the school’s cookbook with precision, which became incredibly popular. Fannie also gave lectures nationwide and even taught at Harvard Medical School.
Comments: After reading this narrative nonfiction picture book, I learned that people used non-standard measurements for cooking even though standard measurements were available. I was surprised to discover the variety of measurements in recipes passed down from generation to generation, such as a dash of this, a smidge of that, or a pinch of this.
The back sections contain photos and additional information about Fannie and the Boston Cooking School and how Ms. Farmer really improved cooking through precise and detailed recipes.
Rating: 4.5/5 📗📗📗📗1/2
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The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music
by Roberta Flack (Author), Tonya Bolden (Author), Hayden Goodman (Illustrator).Publisher : Anne Schwartz Books. 2023. PreK-2. Hardcover. ISBN-13 : 978-0593479872.
Brief summary: Roberta Flack grew up in a Blue Ridge Mountain town in North Carolina, living in a house with two musical parents. She longed to have a piano of her own. Her father found one in a junkyard and spruced it up by painting it green. Her love of music blossomed forth.
The Author’s Note and Career Highlights are in the back.
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Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗
Mary Anning Breaks New Ground: Courageous Kid of Paleontology (Courageous Kids)
by Carol Kim (Author), Mark Simmons (Illustrator). Publisher : Capstone Pr Inc. 2022. Grades 4-6. Paperback Graphic Novel. ISBN-13 : 978-1666334302.
Brief summary: Mary Anning was only twelve when she discovered an Ichthyosaurus along the cliffs near Lyme Regi, England, in the early 1800s. This area was known as the heart of the Jurassic Coast, where ammonite and belemnite fossils were often found unburied. Her father, a carpenter and cabinet maker, would fossil-seek as a hobby taking his children, Joseph and Mary, along the cliffs to find fossils to sell to tourists.
After their father died, her brother learned the upholstery business while she sold fossils for a living. It wasn’t until 2010 that the Royal Society acknowledged Mary and two other women, Mary Somerville, and Caroline Herschel, for their contributions to paleontology.
This is a narrative nonfiction graphic novel with a glossary, read more, internet sites, and about the author sections in the back.
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Rating: 3/5 📗📗📗
The Queen of Chess: How Judit Polgár Changed the Game
by Laurie Wallmark (Author), Stevie Lewis (Illustrator)
Brief summary: Judit and her sisters were trained by their parents to play chess. They competed, with Judit being the youngest. She won junior tournaments against adults. Judit and her family went to the USA, where she competed in games against adults and won. Her goal was to become the youngest grandmaster. She returned to Budapest to study and became the national champion of Hungary. Will Judit’s chess journey lead her to her goal?
Comments: The back pages include Timeline and The Mathematics of Chess.
This is an inspirational story of encouragement, hard work, and perseverance.
Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2
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The Fire of Stars: The Life and Brilliance of the Woman Who Discovered What Stars Are Made Of
by Kirsten W. Larson (Author), Katherine Roy (Illustrator).Publisher : Chronicle Books. 2023. K-3. Hardcover. ISBN-13 : 978-1452172873.
Brief summary: Cecilia Payne moved from the country as a girl to London so her brother, Humfry, could attend a better school. Her school did not teach her the science curriculum that she desired until a new science teacher and friend, Miss Dalglish, was hired. Cecilia wins a University of Cambridge scholarship to study plants but is inspired once she attends a lecture by astronomer Arthur Addigton, whose work created a new field called astrophysics. She moved to America to study astronomy at Harvard, where other women were studying the same subject. Through her work, she discovered what stars are made of, thus building a foundation for astronomers to learn and better understand the stars.
This narrative nonfiction biography picture book has two-page illustrations paralleling Cecilia’s beginning of her career and that of a star’s.
The back sections are: Cecilia Payne: Science Superstar, A Star is Born, and a Timeline.
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Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗
Milloo’s Mind: The Story of Maryam Faruqi, Trailblazer for Women’s Education
by Reem Faruqi (Author, granddaughter of Maryam Faruqi), Hoda Hadadi (Illustrator). Publisher : HarperCollins. 2023. K-3. Hardcover. ISBN-13 : 978-0063056619.
Brief summary: In 1930, a young Pakistani girl, Milloo, loves to read and study but is told that since she finished fifth grade, she will need to stay home to do housework. Milloo wanted to become a teacher, so her parents only agreed if she learned English. With a lot of hard work and determination, she graduated from high school and college. She is ready to become a teacher. She marries, but her husband wants her to stay home. She makes a school in her house and then opens more and more schools.
There is a glossary and author’s note in the back.
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Rating: 3/5 📗📗📗
Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll
by Tonya Bolden (Author), R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator). Publisher : HarperCollins. 2023. Grades 1-3. Hardcover. ISBN-13 : 978-0062994387.
Brief summary: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll, was born in Arkansas in 1915 to two musical parents. Rosetta learns to sing and plays the guitar at an early age. Her family moves to Chicago, where her performance in church begins her career. She marries a preacher. He preaches, and she plays her guitar, where the Sunday service is broadcasted on the radio, thus reaching a broad audience.
Rosetta’s musical career takes off with her playing around the USA and Europe, performing gospel, blues, and rock and roll producing one hit after another.
The timeline at the back of the book lists her notable musical accomplishments and personal life events. Author’s Note and Sources included.
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Rating 4/5 📗📗📗📗
Charles Drew: The Innovator of the Blood Bank (Bright Minds)
by Aaron Talley (Author), Subi Bosa (Illustrator). Publisher : Children’s Press. 2023. Grades 4-6. Paperback or Hardcover Biography Picture Book. ISBN-13 : 978-1338865356.
Brief summary: Charles Drew created a technique that separates the different parts of blood called centrifuging, which helped the blood stay fresh longer in storage. He is known for improving the blood banks and just in time for World War II when bloodmobiles and the American Red Cross enabled people to give and receive blood wherever they lived.
Comments: The back pages have sections such as a glossary, legacy, questions, index, and further reading.
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Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2
Close Up and Far Out
by Mary Auld (Author), Adria Meserve (Illustrator)
Summary: This narrative nonfiction picture book explores the lives of two scientists, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and Galileo Galilei.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek had questions about observing the world more closely and seeing it magnified. He created many microscopes until he designed one that could magnify objects up to 500 times.
Galilei was curious about distant objects, particularly in space, and sought to understand how the universe worked. He successfully modified and created an improved telescope that allowed him to see farther into space.
Comments: This book promotes scientific inquiry and persistence. Both men had questions and could find answers through repeated failures until they produced the desired results.
This book could be used in several units of study: space, inventions, cells, and Intellectual growth/performance(persistence, failure, grit).
Rating: 4/5📗📗📗📗
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Her Path to Kindness
by Helaine Becker (Author), Aura Lewis (Illustrator). Publisher : Christy Ottaviano Books. 2023. Grades 1-3. Hardcover Biography Picture Book. ISBN-13 : 978-0316316415.
Brief summary: Eleanor Roosevelt’s parents and brother died within two years of each other. She lived with her Grandmother. At age fifteen, she was sent to a girls’ boarding school in England, where a teacher helped her realize her potential. Eleanor became a leader of the girls and helped everyone. She left her senior year to return to the USA, where she was expected to debut and find a husband but had other plans.
Comments: The Author’s note in the back gives more details about Eleanor Roosevelt’s life. Several of her famous quotes are cited.
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Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2
You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!: The Storied Life of Folk Artist Elijah Pierce
by Chiquita Mullins Lee (Author), Carmella Van Vleet (Author), Jennifer Mack-Watkins (Illustrator). Publisher : Kokila. 2023. PreK-2. Hardcover Biography Picture Book. ISBN-13 : 978-0593406502.
Brief summary: Columbus, Ohio, artist Elijah Pierce shares with a young artist how he was inspired to carve wood. Elijah cuts the boy’s hair and continues how he got ideas for his many art pieces hanging all around the barbershop. The boy leaves with a fresh cut and thoughts of creating with his new box of colored pencils his mother gave him earlier.
Comments: The back pages contain Elijah Pierce’s honors, Authors’ Notes, Artist’s Note, and information about Elijah Pierce’s Art used in the book.
I remember going to the Columbus Museum of Art and seeing his art and getting to know who the artist was based on his subject matter in the art.
This book contains quotes from Elijah, but the boy in the story is fictional.
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Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗
Never Give Up: Dr. Kati Karikó and the Race for the Future of Vaccines
by Debbie Dadey (Author), Juliana Oakley (Illustrator). Publisher : Millbrook Press ™ . 2023. Grades 2-5. Hardcover Biography Picture Book. ISBN-13 : 978-1728456331.
Brief summary: Hungarian-American scientist Dr. Kati Kariko has always wanted to be a scientist. She studied mRNA(messenger ribonucleic acid) in a biology research center, wondering if she could make new mRNA that would send the message to make suitable proteins for people to heal.
She moved to America and failed to get mRNA to work with cells, so she worked at various universities. She met Drew Weissman, another scientist interested in mRNA. After eight years, they wrote a paper about mRNA. She was offered several jobs but chose to work at BioNTech in Germany. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, scientists at BioNTech and Pfizer worked together to design a vaccine using an mRNA vaccine to fight the virus.
Comments: The back pages include Timeline, Steps To Making a Vaccine, Author’s Note, Glossary, Source Notes, and Further Study sections.
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Rating: 3/5 📗📗📗
Ice Cream Man: How Augustus Jackson Made a Sweet Treat Better
by Glenda Armand (Author), Kim Freeman (Author), Keith Mallett (Illustrator). Publisher : Crown Books for Young Readers . 2023. PreK-3. Hardcover Narrative Nonfiction Biography Picture Book. ISBN-13 : 978-0593563229.
Brief summary: Augustus Jackson left his home in Philadelphia at twelve to go to Washington, DC, to follow his dream as a cook. He became an expert at making ice cream. He was hired at the White House and stayed for five years.
He returned home and opened his own ice cream parlor. He created a faster way to freeze ice cream, as refrigerators/freezers still needed to be invented. He could come up with making ice cream in half the time and ship his own ice cream by train without it melting.
Nicknamed the “Father of Ice Cream”
The back pages include Make Your Own Ice-Cream, Afterword, and Sources sections.
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Rating: 4/5 📗📗📗📗
The First Woman Cherokee Chief: Wilma Pearl Mankiller (Step into Reading)
by Patricia Morris Buckley (Author), Aphelandra Messer (Illustrator). Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers . 2023. Grades 1-2. Paperback or Hardcover Reader Biography Picture Book. ISBN-13 : 978-0593568507.
Brief summary: Wilma Pearl Mankiller lived in Oklahoma on Cherokee lands until a drought caused her father to move to the city for work. Pearl(the name she preferred) hated the city and stayed at her grandmother’s farm for a year. She moved back to the city and connected with other Native people at the American Indian Center.
In 1969, there was a protest at Alcatraz about the Native lands stolen by the government. Pearl supported and helped Native people many times and later became the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation.
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Rating 3/5 📗📗📗
Carol Burnett: A Little Golden Book Biography
by Andrea Posner-Sanchez (Author), Kelly Kennedy (Illustrator). Publisher : Golden Books. 2023. PreK-2. Hardcover Biography Picture Book. ISBN-13 : 978-0593481912.
Brief summary: Carol Burnett was born in Texas and was raised by her grandmother, Nanny. When she was seven, they moved to Hollywood, California, where Nanny would take Carol to see several movies weekly. Carol would reenact them on their apartment’s rooftop and later study theater arts in college. After seeing her perform, a stranger gave her $1,000, urging her to go to New York. She had to promise to pay him back in five years and to never reveal his identity. Carol became famous on the Garry Moore Show and then had her own tv show that aired for eleven seasons.
Carol’s famous left ear tug on TV was her way of saying hello to her grandmother, something she did even after the woman’s passing.
Comments: If you are unfamiliar with Little Golden Books, they are smaller than a “regular” picture book–Dimensions : 6.63 x 0.19 x 8 inches.
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Rating: 3/5 📗📗📗
I am Temple Grandin (Ordinary People Change the World)
by Brad Meltzer (Author), Christopher Eliopoulos (Illustrator). Publisher : Rocky Pond Books. 2023. PreK-2. Hardcover Biography Picture Book. ISBN-13 : 978-0593405970.
Brief summary: Temple Grandin was born with autism and did not act or respond like other babies and toddlers did to things and situations. Her mother found a speech therapist to help Temple speak her first words at age four. Through her sensitivity and empathy towards cattle, she was able to help better design the cattle chute for them to feel calmer and how to build round pens because she noticed they could go around a curve easier. She also discovered how to make cows feel calmer by going down into the water for a bath to get rid of insects on them by changing the steel ramp to a textured concrete one.
Temple was able to go to college and even receive a doctorate degree. She teaches and does research at Colorado State University. The book explains how she thinks and feels in the first-person narrative.
Comments: I highly recommend this book for parents, teachers, and librarians to share with those with autism to be inspired by Temple’s life’s accomplishments.
Smaller than an average picture book–Dimensions : 7.94 x 0.33 x 7.88 inches
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Rating: 3.5/5 📗📗📗1/2
The selected children’s books are chosen by a certified, retired elementary school librarian who passionately reads and recommends picture books to teachers, school librarians, parents, grandparents, and other book enthusiasts.
Most of the books Mrs. Ferraris recommends are checked out from the public library. The only exception is for the complimentary copies that she receives for an honest review, which are duly noted.