Picture Book Biographies About Science & Math - Read-Aloud Revival ® with Sarah Mackenzie

Picture Book Biographies About Science & Math

Picture book biographies are our favorite way to study history with our kids.

The books below are biographies all about scientists and mathematicians.

(This printable will give you the whole list of picture book biographies – you’ll find the books about scientists and mathematicians on pages 28-31.)

Learn 3 conversation starters you can use to talk with your kids about any book

The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon

Snowflake Bentley

Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain

Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau

Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci

Florence Nightingale

The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos

The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever

The Librarian Who Measured the Earth

Caroline’s Comets: A True Story

Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine

Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere

Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

The Darkest Dark

Out of School and Into Nature: The Anna Comstock Story

What Miss Mitchell Saw

Shark Lady

The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps

Buzzing with Questions

Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei

The Girl Who Named Pluto

All in a Drop

Skybound! Starring Mary Myers as Carlotta, Daredevil Aeronaut and Scientist

Josephine and Her Dishwashing Machine

Maryam’s Magic

Secrets of the Sea

Beatrix Potter, Scientist

Electrical Wizard

The Fabulous Fannie Farmer

How to Build a Hug

She Caught the Light

Sisters in Science

Queen of Leaves

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