Biography & Autobiography

At the time of his famous kite experiment, Benjamin Franklin was unaware that his theories about electricity had already made him a celebrity all over Europe, especially in France, where fashionable circles loved to discuss scientific discovery. Admired by the French court and beloved by French citizens, Franklin effectively became America's first …

Nominated for the 2005 Norma Fleck Award

Thousands of mothers carried their babies to the gates of the Foundling Hospital desperate to save them from the cruel streets of eighteenth-century London. Each baby was left with a personal “token” – identification if a repentant mother ever returned to reclaim her child.

Captain Thomas Coram, himself …

"Twelve months in any place, my friend, is quite a weary while And seems more like a century when lived on Sable Isle ..."

So wrote Thomas Raddall at the age of eighteen, not dreaming that many years later Sable Island -- that "hell on earth" -- would provide a romantic background for one of his greatest novels, The Nymph and the Lamp.

Traumatized b …

Albert Einstein was one of the most brilliant scientists who ever lived. The theories that he formulated about time, light and gravity have changed how we look at the world, and resulted in many new inventions. But did you know that he was so absent-minded that he once forgot where he lived? Or that, even though he was an advocate of world peace, h …

À l'intention des jeunes lecteurs, l'auteure trace le portrait d'Alexander Graham Bell, de sa naissance en écosse jusqu'à son décès au Canada en 1922, sans oublier les expériences, accomplissements et inventions qui lui sont attribués. En plus du téléphone, Alexander Graham Bell a inventé de nombreux instruments destinés à faciliter la …