Best Biography Books for 1st Grade

First graders, usually six and seven years old, can meet real people through the picture book biographies on this page, each chosen as much for its art as for its story. Anita Yasuda's Up, Up, Ever Up! follows Junko Tabei, the first woman to reach the top of Mount Everest, and Jason Reynolds's There Was a Party for Langston celebrates the poet Langston Hughes. Other books introduce a Supreme Court justice and a disability rights activist, and several have earned Caldecott honors for their illustrations.