Best Biography Books for Kindergarten

Kindergartners, ages five and six, can meet inspiring people through the picture book biographies on this page. Kari Lavelle's Ode to Grapefruit tells how actor James Earl Jones overcame a stutter with the help of poetry, and Duncan Tonatiuh's Game of Freedom introduces Mestre Bimba, who helped bring the Brazilian art of capoeira out of the shadows. The list also includes Unbound, about artist Judith Scott, and Up, Up, Ever Up!, a Caldecott honor book about mountaineer Junko Tabei.