Living books on historical scientists for early elementary?
 

Do these exist? I want books that are interesting and will hold attention and not be a chore to read- books about Euclid, Ptolemy, Aristotle, Pythagoras, etc. I'm interested in books or series you have personally read and enjoyed.

I am going to buy both Mathematicians are People, Too books- I know that already.

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Jeanne Bendick's books are good. We've read Archimedes, Galileo, and Herodotus. She's got one on Galen and early medicine that I don't have. there might be more.

I've got a really nice picture book on Mendel. I can't remember the author, though.

That's it off the top of my head.

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Our library has a great selection of juvenile biographies that my kids really like. It's worth looking.

For the specific people you mentioned, my kids liked "What's Your Angle Pythagoras?" a lot and I think there was a sequel too.

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link - is it this one? Your post reminded me of it.

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What's the age range on these? I saw those but thought they were more for upper elementary.

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I think there area few scientists in this series: http://www.bmionline.com/books/child...BoCJI0QAvD_BwE I loved these books and my kids and now my grandkids. They arent listed in this paeticular collection but there are def. scientists.They sell them at Amazon too

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I found a few more that my kids liked.

Marie Tharp

Ada Lovelace

Paul Erdos

Fibonacci

Einstein

We haven't read this, but it looks lovely. link

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That's it!

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I read them out loud when my kids were . . . . .K, 3rd and 5th grades? :think yeah, they were probably more engaging for the older two, but we do a lot of that sort of thing.

Mendel is a picture book, so it definitely worked for my younger two as well.

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I think Sonlight includes a biography in each of their elementary science programs.

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Are there any Who Was books about some of them? My girls love those.