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Ann Killion
A lively, fact-rich introduction to women’s soccer, pairing match and player coverage with statistics and visual features. Its focus is on the sport’s history and the stories of its players.
Nancy Churnin
A lively introduction to a deaf baseball player whose practical solution to communication barriers became part of the sport. It combines biography, baseball history and bright illustrations celebrating persistence and ingenuity.
Juan Felipe Herrera
A visually presented introduction to Hispanic and Latino American figures whose work spans culture, public life, science, sport and the arts. It offers short life sketches rather than one continuous narrative.
Russell Freedman
A lively introduction to Franklin’s changing roles, from printer and experimenter to civic organiser and statesman. It presents a broad historical journey supported by period images and reference material, with perseverance and inventive thinking prominent in the portrait.
Monica Brown
Choose this for a short introduction to Gabriela Mistral, especially if the child enjoys poetry, languages, imaginative pictures or stories about how childhood interests can develop into creative and educational work.
Matthew Syed
This is an encouraging, practical exploration of how practice, perseverance, support and learning from mistakes may help people develop skills. Its central message is hopeful, though the emphasis on becoming “awesome” can make achievement feel like the main measure of success.
Kate Pankhurst
A lively introduction to women’s contributions across history and different fields, presented through colourful illustrations, short profiles, facts and quotations. Its page-by-page structure supports dipping in, revisiting individual figures and noticing links between personal achievement and wider social change.
Ernest Hemingway
This is a concentrated story of an ageing fisherman’s prolonged struggle at sea. It offers quiet reflection, precise physical detail and a serious meditation on perseverance, pride, loss and what achievement means when results do not last.
Ntozake Shange, Kadir Nelson
This is a short, poetic remembrance of a childhood home where prominent Black cultural and political figures gathered. Its words are spare, while the paintings make the people, rooms and atmosphere expansive.
Helaine Becker
A focused biography of a pioneering mathematician, linking childhood curiosity with consequential work at NASA. Its strongest offering is a clear portrait of expertise, persistence and African American women’s contribution to space history.
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