Leonardo Da Vinci
10 best books like Leonardo Da Vinci (Kathleen Krull): Louisa: The Life of Louisa May Alcott, Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker, Eleanor, Quiet No More, Leonardo and the Flying Boy, Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon, Zoo In The Sky: A Book of Animal Constellations, Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London, Buffalo Bill, The Adventures of Marco Polo, Opium Wars
Louisa: The Life of Louisa May Alcott
| Author | Yona Zeldis McDonough |
| ISBN | 0805081925 |
When Louisa May Alcott's Little Women was published in 1868 it was an instant success. Louisa drew on her experiences in writing the novel, but there's a lot more to her rags-to-riches story. Louisa came from a family that was poor but freethinking, and she started teaching when she was only seventeen...
Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0763618349 |
Candlewick Press has recently reissued in paperback Kathryn Lasky's biography of Sarah Breedlove Walker, originally published in 2000. In a brief 48 pages, Lasky chronicles the life of this remarkable woman, born into poverty to former slaves, who became a highly successful entrepreneur and...
| Author | Doreen Rappaport |
| ISBN | 0786851414 |
Eleanor Roosevelt was raised in a privileged but stern Victorian household, with an affectionate but mostly absent father and a critical mother who made fun of her daughter's looks. Alone and lonely for much of her childhood, Eleanor found solace in books and in the life of her lively and independent...
| Author | Laurence Anholt |
| ISBN | 0764152254 |
There were no spaceships or airplanes when Zoro was a boy. He lived in Italy during the era we now call the Renaissance, a time when the sky belonged to the birds. But one unusual man dreamed of incredible flying machines. "One day, Zoro," he told his pupil, "people will sail through the clouds and look down...
Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon
The 25 years between the onset of the French Revolution in 1789 and the Bourbon Restoration after Napoleon in 1814 is an astonishing period in world history. This era shook the foundations of the old world and marked a permanent shift for politics, religion, and society - not just for France, but for all...
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3. This illuminating book will capture the interest of children as the narrative explores the glittering constellations. Reminding children to look up at the starry night sky this...
| Author | Andrea Warren |
| ISBN | 0547395744 |
Provoked by the horrors he saw every day, Charles Dickens wrote novels that were originally intended as instruments for social change — to save his country’s children.
Charles Dickens is best known for his contributions to the world of literature, but during his young life, Dickens witnessed...
| Author | Ingri d'Aulaire |
| ISBN | 0964380374 |
I've often considered the "Wild West" to be fascinating. Cowboys, buffalo, Indians, wagons and life on the pioneer are tantalizing elements of fiction. Perhaps I read a little too much Little House on the Prairie as a girl.
Of all the famous elements of the west, the person who most embodies...
Was Marco Polo the world's greatest explorer -- or the world's greatest liar? Newbery Medalist Russell Freedman turns his eagle eye on the enigmatic Marco Polo in his most exciting biography yet.
He claimed to have seen rocks burn, bandits command sandstorms, lions tamed with a look, and sorcerers...
| Author | W. Travis Hanes III |
| ISBN | 1402201494 |
In this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839??1842 and 1856??1860 between Britain and China are recounted for the first time through the eyes of the Chinese as well as the Imperial West. Opium entered China during the Middle Ages when Arab traders brought it into China for medicinal purposes....
| Author | Susan Goldman Rubin |
| ISBN | 1580893449 |
This biography of American composer, pianist, and conductor Leonard Bernstein takes readers from his childhood in Boston to his spectacular professional conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1943. Illustrated with archival photographs, mostly from the Leonard Bernstein Collection...
| Author | Sid Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0061344311 |
"Mark Twain was born fully grown, with a cheap cigar clamped between his teeth." So begins Sid Fleischman's ramble-scramble biography of the great American author and wit, who started life in a Missouri village as a barefoot boy named Samuel Clemens.
Abandoning a career as a young steamboat...
This is the story of a killer that has been striking people down for thousands of years: tuberculosis. After centuries of ineffective treatments, the microorganism that causes TB was identified, and the cure was thought to be within reach—but drug-resistant varieties continue to plague and panic...
| Author | Robert Burleigh |
| ISBN | 1416967338 |
“Hearts will be racing.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A work to inspire further learning.” —Booklist (starred review)
“Vivid.” —The Horn Book
A picture book biography of the first woman in flight—Amelia Earhart—by NCTE Orbis Pictus Award-winner...
| Author | Joseph D'Agnese |
| ISBN | 0805063056 |
As a young boy in medieval Italy, Leonardo Fibonacci thought about numbers day and night. He was such a daydreamer that people called him a blockhead.
When Leonardo grew up and traveled the world, he was inspired by the numbers used in different countries. Then he realized that many things in...
| Author | Marc Aronson |
| ISBN | 0805098356 |
Robert Capa and Gerda Taro were young Jewish refugees, idealistic and in love. As photographers, they set off to capture their generation's most important struggle—the fight against Fascism. Among the first to depict modern warfare, Capa and Taro took powerful photographs of the Spanish Civil...
| Author | Patrick N. Allitt |
| ISBN | 1598035843 |
Audio CDs in three cases (parts 1, 2, and 3), accompanied by a "like new" course booklet. 36 lectures in all / 30 minutes per lecture. 18 audio CDs. Taught by Professor Patrick N. Allitt of Emory University.
At its peak in the early 20th century, Britain's empire was the largest in the history of...
His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg
| Author | Louise Borden |
| ISBN | 0618507558 |
An amazing and inspirational World War II story about how one man saved the lives of many.
Raoul Wallenberg’s name may not be a universally familiar one, but the impact he had is immeasurable. Wallenberg was a Swedish humanitarian who worked in Budapest during World War II to rescue Jews from...
Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor
| Author | Emily Arnold McCully |
| ISBN | 0374348103 |
With her sketchbook labeled My Inventions and her father’s toolbox, Mattie could make almost anything – toys, sleds, and a foot warmer. When she was just twelve years old, Mattie designed a metal guard to prevent shuttles from shooting off textile looms and injuring workers. As an adult,...
Leonardo's Legacy: How da Vinci Reimagined the World
| Author | Stefan Klein |
| ISBN | 0306818256 |
Revered today as, perhaps, the greatest of Renaissance painters, Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist at heart. The artist who created the Mona Lisa also designed functioning robots and digital computers, constructed flying machines and built the first heart valve. His intuitive and ingenious approach—a...
| Author | James Mayhew |
| ISBN | 1841216348 |
Katie visits five paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin and Cezanne! Katie tries to pick the sunflower seeds from the Vincent Van Gogh painting, but when the vase tips over, the flowers go everywhere. Mimi, a little girl from a painting nearby, comes to help Katie, but when Mimi's dog Zazou comes too disaster...
Thor Speaks!: A Guide to the Realms by the Norse God of Thunder
| Author | Vicky Alvear Shecter |
| ISBN | 1620915995 |
One day in the distant future, Thor, the Norse god of thunder, is destined to battle the giant snake that threatens to devour the world. Until then, mortals of Middle Earth look to Thor and his magic hammer for protection from evil. In this third volume of the Secrets of the Ancient Gods series, Thor takes...
Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry
| Author | Patrick Coffey |
| ISBN | 0195321340 |
In Cathedrals of Science, Patrick Coffey describes how chemistry got its modern footing-how thirteen brilliant men and one woman struggled with the laws of the universe and with each other. They wanted to discover how the world worked, but they also wanted credit for making those discoveries, and...
