![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve got a shelf full of them-probably 70 or more-ranging from missionary biographies to Presidential, sports heroes, and cultural icons. The kids loved this first foray into the world of biographies, and I feel like the pump might be primed for us now to pursue another biography in a similar vein. ![]() This first selection was so simple that we finished its 95 pages in just two evenings. While I know the kids truly enjoyed the Little House series (which, though similar to biography, probably isn’t exactly), we’ve been focusing our attention mostly on books of adventure or humor and have left off “real-life” books for far too long. Still, this particular choice scratched two very important itches for our family when we read it together last week.įirst, biography is a genre that’s been conspicuously absent from our family reading time for years. It’s clearly designed for elementary-aged kids: the conversations and “suspense” are light, the font is large, and the illustrations are pretty childish. This short Scholastic biography of Helen Keller is about as simplistic as you can get when it comes to recording the life of an American icon. ![]()
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