Overview :You can always recognize a painting by Kahlo because she is in nearly all--with her black braided hair and colorful Mexican outfits. A brave... Read More
Overview :Born on a small farm in rural Michigan, Henry Ford's humble beginnings were no match for his ambition. Ford quickly created a manufacturing ... Read More
Overview :Louis Braille certainly wasn't your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading sys... Read More
Overview :Learn more about the renowned British scientist, professor, and author who spent his entire career trying to answer the question: "Where did... Read More
Overview :As a boy he preferred reading sea stories to doing homework and, at age 16, became an apprentice seaman. Subsequently, Ernest Shackleton's i... Read More
Overview :Learn how a Prussian princess grew up to be Russia's longest-ruling female leader Born in 1729, Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbs was never s... Read More
Overview :Born in Connecticut in 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist, author, and playwright. Slavery was a major industry in the American... Read More
Overview :Like Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name--a name that is synonymous with scientific achievement.... Read More
Overview :As a child, Charles Dickens worked in a shoe polish factory where his gritty surroundings inspired some of the most memorable characters and... Read More
Overview :Find out how this one-time American hero became the country's most notorious traitor. As a young child, Benedict Arnold never shied away fro... Read More
Overview :Born in 1925, Maria Tallchief spent part of her childhood on an Osage reservation in Oklahoma. With the support of her family and world-reno... Read More
Overview :As a kid, Jackie Robinson loved sports. And why not? He was a natural at football, basketball, and, of course, baseball. But beyond athletic... Read More
Overview :The perfect biography to "bite into" at the start of a new school year Children are sure to be fascinated by the eccentric and legendary Jo... Read More
Overview :Known as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time, Alfred Hitchcock's unique vision in movies like Psycho and The Birds sent shive... Read More
Overview :Bruce Lee was a Chinese American action film star, martial arts instructor, filmmaker, and philosopher. His Hong Kong and Hollywood-produced... Read More
Overview :How did a New York printer become one of the most influential poets of all time? Find out in this addition to the Who HQ library Walt Whitm... Read More
Overview :Through this engaging Who Was? biography, kids will discover the woman behind the sunglasses. Private and bookish, Jackie Kennedy found hers... Read More
Overview :Born into aristocracy, Churchill cut his teeth as a young army officer in British India, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He rose in the ... Read More
Overview :Alexander the Great conquers the New York Times best-selling Who Was...? series When Alexander was a boy in ancient Macedon, he already had... Read More
Overview :Isaac Newton was always a loner, preferring to spend his time contemplating the mysteries of the universe. When the plague broke out in Lond... Read More