Biography

The dynamic story of the Williams sisters, both top-ranked professional tennis players.Venus and Serena Williams are two of the most successful professional American tennis players of all time. Coached at an early age by their parents, the sisters have both gone on to become...

Product Description Based on the New York Times bestselling book and the Academy Award–nominated movie, author Margot Lee Shetterly and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award winner Laura Freeman bring the incredibly inspiring true story of four black women who helped NASA launch men...

Product Description I made up my mind to try. I tried and I was successful. - Bessie Coleman Meet the little leaders. They're brave. They're bold. They changed the world.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Did you know the treatment for leprosy was developed by a...

Product Description Introducing the latest addition to the Who HQ program: board book biographies of relevant and important figures, created specifically for the preschool audience! The #1 New York Times Bestselling Who Was? series expands into the board book space, bringing age-appropriate biographies of...

Find out all about NASA in this out-of-this-world addition to the What Was? series. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA, began in 1958. With its creation, the United States hoped to ensure it won the space race against the Soviet...

A little love and compassion goes a long wayOnce upon a time, a young girl was taught by her mother that all people were her people. So Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu undertook an incredible journey from her home in Albania to Ireland and finally, India,...

Follow the amazing journey of Pope Francis, whose warmth and humility have made him beloved around the world.Jorge Mario Bergoglio, aka Pope Francis, from Argentina, is the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, and the first from the Southern Hemisphere. Since being...

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 system that converted printed words into columns of raised dots. Through touch, Braille opened the world of books to the...

Every kid has heard of Harry Houdini, the famous magician who could escape from handcuffs, jail cells, and locked trunks. But do they know that the ever-ambitious and adventurous Houdini was also a famous movie star and the first pilot to fly a plane...

Put on your blue suede shoes and get ready for another addition to the Who Was…? series! The King could not have come from humbler origins: Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, during the Depression, he grew up with the blues music of the rural South,...

New in the little people, big dreams series, discover the incredible life of Muhammad Ali, "the greatest" Boxer of all time. When he was little, Muhammad Ali had his bicycle stolen. He wanted to fight the thief, but a policeman told him him to...

In this international bestseller from the critically acclaimed little people, big dreams series, discover the life of Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist. When Marie was young, she was unable to go to college because she was a woman. But when she was older,...

Every big adventure begins with a thought, a question or a dream, just like it did for Suni. A chance announcement on the radio about Neil Armstrong’s voyage to the Moon sets little Suni thinking. She wonders how he managed to get there. Did...

The books to inspire series from Tota books hopes to awaken young minds to new possibilities. Discover the fascinating and heartening people who have led extraordinary lives with the hope and courage to dream. Dhyan Chand was single minded and focused on his goal...

"Had I not been a classical singer, I would have loved to spend My entire life in a garage fine-tuning a Fiat or a Maruti." Bhimsen Joshi the books to inspire series from Tota books hopes to awaken young minds to new possibilities. Discover...

"I shall not surrender My Jhansi" Rani Lakshmi Bai the books to inspire series from Tota books hopes to awaken young minds to new possibilities. Discover the fascinating and heartening people who have led extraordinary lives with the hope and courage to dream. Meet...

"The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to. Find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it. " Kalpana Chawla the books to inspire series from Tota books hopes to awaken young...

Fifty awesome women. Fifty awe-inspiring stories. One defining moment. Scientists, artists, entrepreneurs, scholars, athletes and queens. Trace the journeys of these Indian women and their extraordinary lives. Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scholastic India (15 October 2019)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishPaperback ‏ : ‎ 112 pagesISBN-10 ‏ :...