Picture Book Biographies About Scientists & Mathematicians

Picture book biographies are our favorite way to study history with our kids. Don’t miss our FREE giant list of picture book biographies across categories and time periods that can coordinate with the rest of your curriculum.

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 22-23.)

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The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon
Snowflake Bentley
Of Numbers and Stars
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
The Girl Who Thought in Pictures
Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere
Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine
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
The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity: A Tale of the Genius Ramanujan
Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean’s Most Fearless Scientist
The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps
Buzzing with Questions
The Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney
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