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Book #1 · Chapter Book · Ages 8–11 · 2002

Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

By Yona Zeldis McDonough, Who HQ, Carrie Robbins (Illustrator)

A young boy becomes a famous musician and composer in 18th century Europe

112 pages· 7,680 words· Est. 1 hour read

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Summary: Explore the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a musical prodigy who composed his first piece at five and dazzled royalty across Europe. Despite his early death at thirty-five, Mozart's legacy includes over 600 works that transformed the music world. This biography delves into his extraordinary career and personal life, offering a glimpse into eighteenth-century Europe's cultural landscape. With illustrations and insights into opera's history and musical instruments' evolution, this book paints a vivid picture of a genius whose influence endures. What drove this young composer, and how did he leave such an indelible mark?

The complete set

Who Was . . . ? Series

229 books · Published 2002–2025

Year	Title	Author	Illustrator	Pages
2002	Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?	Yona Zeldis McDonough, Who HQ	Carrie Robbins	112
2002	Who Was Henry Ford?	Michael Burgan, Who HQ	Ted Hammond	112
2002	Who Was Annie Oakley?	Stephanie Spinner, Who HQ	Larry Day	112
2002	Who Was Ben Franklin?	Dennis Brindell Fradin, Who HQ	John O'Brien	105
2002	Who Was Albert Einstein?	Jess Brallier, Who HQ	Robert Andrew Parker	112
2002	Who Was Sacagawea?	Dennis Brindell Fradin, Who HQ, Judith Bloom Fradin	Val Paul Taylor	112
2002	Who Was Harry Houdini?	Who HQ, Tui Sutherland	John O'Brien	112
2002	Who Was Maria Tallchief?	Who HQ, Catherine Gourley	Val Paul Taylor	103
2002	Who Was Harriet Tubman?	Yona Zeldis McDonough, Who HQ	Nancy Harrison	112
2002	Who Was Amelia Earhart?	Kate Boehm Jerome, Who HQ	David Cain	106
2003	Who Was Thomas Jefferson?	Dennis Brindell Fradin, Who HQ	John O'Brien	112
2003	Who Was Helen Keller?	Who HQ, Gare Thompson	Nancy Harrison	107
2004	Who Was Eleanor Roosevelt?	Who HQ, Gare Thompson	Elizabeth Wolf	106
2004	Who Was Mark Twain?	April Jones Prince, Who HQ	John O'Brien	112
2004	Who Was Ferdinand Magellan?	S. A. Kramer, Who HQ		112
2004	Who Was Ronald Reagan?	Joyce Milton, Who HQ	Elizabeth Wolf	112
2004	Who Was Louis Armstrong?	Yona Zeldis McDonough, Who HQ	John O'Brien	112
2004	Who Was John F. Kennedy?	Yona Zeldis McDonough, Who HQ	Jill Weber	112
2005	Who Was Charles Darwin?	Deborah Hopkinson, Who HQ	Nancy Harrison	112
2005	Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?	Roberta Edwards, Who HQ	True Kelley	112
2005	Who Was Johnny Appleseed?	Joan Holub, Who HQ	Anna DiVito	112
2005	Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?	Margaret Frith, Who HQ	John O'Brien	112
2006	Who Were the Beatles?	Who HQ, Geoff Edgers	Jeremy Tugeau	112
2006	Who Was King Tut?	Roberta Edwards, Who HQ	True Kelley	112
2006	Who Was Daniel Boone?	Who HQ, S. A. Kramer	George Ulrich	112
2006	Who Was William Shakespeare?	Who HQ, Celeste Mannis	John O'Brien	105
2007	Who Was Anne Frank?	Ann Abramson, Who HQ	Nancy Harrison	112
2007	Who Was Marco Polo?	Joan Holub, Who HQ	John O'Brien	112
2007	Who Was Elvis Presley?	Who HQ, Geoff Edgers	John O'Brien	112
2007	Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?	Bonnie Bader, Who HQ	Elizabeth Wolf	112
2007	¿Quién fue Martin Luther King, Jr.?	Bonnie Bader, Who HQ	Elizabeth Wolf	112
2008	Who Was Abraham Lincoln?	Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ	John O'Brien	112
2008	Who Was Neil Armstrong?	Roberta Edwards, Who HQ	Stephen Marchesi	112
2008	¿Quién es Neil Armstrong?	Roberta Edwards	Nancy HarrisonᐧStephen Marchesi	112
2008	Who Was Queen Elizabeth?	Who HQ, June Eding	Nancy Harrison	112
2009	Who Was George Washington?	Roberta Edwards, Who HQ	True Kelley	112
2009	Who Is Barack Obama?	Roberta Edwards, Who HQ	John O'Brien	112
2009	Who Was Pablo Picasso?	True Kelley	True Kelley	112
2009	Who Was Walt Disney?	Whitney Stewart, Who HQ	Nancy Harrison	112
2009	Who Was Claude Monet?	Who HQ, Ann Waldron	Stephen Marchesi	112
2009	Who Was Franklin Roosevelt?	Margaret Frith, Who HQ	John O'Brien	105
2010	Who Was Jim Henson?	Joan Holub, Who HQ	Nancy Harrison	112
2010	Who Was Jackie Robinson?	Who HQ, Gail Herman	John O'Brien	112
2010	Who Was Rosa Parks?	Yona Zeldis McDonough, Who HQ	Stephen Marchesi	112
2011	Who Was Dr. Seuss?	Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ	Nancy Harrison	112
2011	Who Was Paul Revere?	Roberta Edwards	John O'Brien	112
2012	Who Was Steve Jobs?	Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ	John O'Brien	112
2012	Who Was Babe Ruth?	Joan Holub, Who HQ	Ted Hammond	112
2012	Who Is J.K. Rowling?	Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ	Stephen Marchesi	105
2012	Who Was Roald Dahl?	True Kelley, Who HQ	Stephen Marchesi	112
2012	Who Is Jane Goodall?	Roberta Edwards, Who HQ	John O'Brien	112
2012	Who Was Maurice Sendak?	Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ	Stephen Marchesi	112
2013	Who Is Bill Gates?	Patricia Brennan Demuth	Ted HammondᐧNancy Harrison	112
2013	Who Was Sally Ride?	Megan Stine, Who HQ	Ted Hammond	112
2013	Who Was Christopher Columbus?	Bonnie Bader, Who HQ	Nancy Harrison	112
2013	Who Is Bob Dylan?	Jim O'Connor, Who HQ	John O'Brien	112
2013	Who Is Michelle Obama?	Megan Stine, Who HQ	John O'Brien	112
2013	Who Was Davy Crockett?	Gail Herman, Who HQ	Robert Squier	112
2013	Who Was Alexander Graham Bell?	Bonnie Bader, Who HQ	David Groff	112
2013	Who Was Laura Ingalls Wilder?	Patricia Brennan Demuth, Who HQ	Tim Foley	112
2013	Who Was Nelson Mandela?	Pam Pollack, Who HQ	Stephen Marchesi	112
2013	Who Was Frida Kahlo?	Who HQ, Sarah Fabiny	Jerry Hoare	112
2013	Who Was Ernest Shackleton?	Who HQ, James Buckley Jr.	Max Hergenrother	112
2013	Who Is Steven Spielberg?	Stephanie Spinner, Who HQ	Daniel Mather	112
2013	Who Was Milton Hershey?	Who HQ, James Buckley Jr.	Ted Hammond	112
2014	Who Was Louis Braille?	Margaret Frith, Who HQ	Robert Squier	112
2014	Who Was Abigail Adams?	True Kelley, Who HQ	John O'Brien	112
2014	Who Is Dolly Parton?	True Kelley, Who HQ	Stephen Marchesi	112
2014	Who Were the Wright Brothers?	Who HQ, James Buckley Jr.	Tim Foley	112
2014	Who Was Theodore Roosevelt?	Michael Burgan, Who HQ	Jerry Hoare	112
2014	Who Is George Lucas?	Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ	Ted Hammond	112
2014	Who Was Bruce Lee?	Who HQ, Jim Gigliotti	John Hinderliter	112
2014	Who Was Ulysses S. Grant?	Megan Stine, Who HQ	Mark Edward Geyer	112
2014	Who Was Robert E. Lee?	Bonnie Bader, Who HQ	John O'Brien	112
2014	Who Was Queen Victoria?	Who HQ, Jim Gigliotti	Max Hergenrother	112
2014	Who Was Clara Barton?	Stephanie Spinner, Who HQ	David Groff	112
2014	Who Was Muhammad Ali?	Who HQ, James Buckley Jr.	Stephen Marchesi	112
2014	Who Was Marie Curie?	Megan Stine, Who HQ	Ted Hammond	112
2014	Who Was Roberto Clemente?	Who HQ, James Buckley Jr.	Ted Hammond	112
2014	Who Was Isaac Newton?	Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ	Tim Foley	112
2014	Who Was Rachel Carson?	Who HQ, Sarah Fabiny	Dede Putra	112
2014	Who Was Susan B. Anthony?	Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ	Mike Lacey	112
2014	Who Was Julius Caesar?	Nico Medina, Who HQ	Tim Foley	112
2014	Who Was Gandhi?	Who HQ, Dana Meachen Rau	Jerry Hoare	112
2014	Who Was Stan Lee?	Who HQ, Geoff Edgers	John Hinderliter	112
2014	Who Was Genghis Khan?	Nico Medina, Who HQ	Andrew Thomson	112
2014	Who Was Alfred Hitchcock?	Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ	Jonathan Moore	112
2014	Who Was Charles Dickens?	Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ	Mark Edward Geyer	111
2014	Who Was Sitting Bull?	Stephanie Spinner, Who HQ	Jim Eldridge	112
2014	Who Was Betsy Ross?	Who HQ, James Buckley Jr.	John O'Brien	112
2014	Who Was Frederick Douglass?	April Jones Prince, Who HQ	Robert Squier	112
2014	Who Was Andy Warhol?	Who HQ, Kirsten Anderson	Gregory Copeland	112
2014	Who Is Gloria Steinem?	Who HQ, Sarah Fabiny	Max Hergenrother	112
2015	Who Was Galileo?	Patricia Brennan Demuth, Who HQ	John O'Brien	112
2015	Who Was Robert Ripley?	Who HQ, Kirsten Anderson	Tim Foley	112
2015	Who Was Jesus?	Who HQ, Ellen Morgan	Stephen Marchesi	112
2015	Who Is Wayne Gretzky?	Who HQ, Gail Herman	Ted Hammond	112
2015	Who Was Winston Churchill?	Who HQ, Ellen Labrecque	Jerry Hoare	112
2015	Who Was Harriet Beecher Stowe?	Dana Meachen Rau, Who HQ	Gregory Copeland	112
2015	Who Was Jacques Cousteau?	Nico Medina, Who HQ	Dede Putra	112
2015	Who Was Mother Teresa?	Who HQ, Jim Gigliotti	David Groff	112
2015	Who Was Steve Irwin?	Who HQ, Dina Anastasio	Jim Eldridge	112
2015	Who Was Beatrix Potter?	Who HQ, Sarah Fabiny	Mike Lacey	112
2015	Who Was J. R. R. Tolkien?	Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ	Jonathan Moore	112
2015	Who Was Jesse Owens?	James Buckley Jr., Who HQ	Gregory Copeland	112
2015	Who Was Edgar Allan Poe?	Who HQ, Jim Gigliotti	Tim Foley	112
2015	Who Is Malala Yousafzai?	Who HQ, Dinah Brown	Andrew Thomson	112
2015	Who Is Richard Branson?	Michael Burgan, Who HQ	Ted Hammond	112
2015	Who Were the Brothers Grimm?	Who HQ, Avery Reed	John O'Brien	112
2015	Who Is Derek Jeter?	Gail Herman, Who HQ	Andrew Thomson	112
2015	Who Is Jeff Kinney?	Who HQ, Patrick Kinney	John Hinderliter	112
2015	Who Was Julia Child?	Carlene Hempel, Geoff Edgers	Dede PutraᐧNancy Harrison	112
2015	Who Was Marie Antoinette?	Who HQ, Dana Meachen Rau	John O'Brien	112
2015	Who Was Seabiscuit?	Who HQ, James Buckley Jr.	Gregory Copeland	112
2015	Who Was Blackbeard?	Who HQ, James Buckley Jr.	Joseph J. M. Qiu	105
2015	Who Was Frank Lloyd Wright?	Who HQ, Ellen Labrecque	Gregory Copeland	112
2015	Who Was Sojourner Truth?	Yona Zeldis McDonough, Who HQ	Jim Eldridge	112
2015	Who Was George Washington Carver?	Who HQ, Jim Gigliotti	Stephen Marchesi	112
2015	Who Was Michael Jackson?	Megan Stine, Who HQ	Joseph J. M. Qiu	112
2016	Who Was? Scientists and Inventors	Various		0
2016	Who Was Maya Angelou?	Who HQ, Ellen Labrecque	Dede Putra	112
2016	Who Was Lucille Ball?	Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ	Gregory Copeland	112
2016	Who Was Joan of Arc?	Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ	Andrew Thomson	112
2016	Who Is Elton John?	Who HQ, Kirsten Anderson	Joseph J. M. Qiu	112
2016	Who Was Alexander the Great?	Who HQ, Robin Waterfield, Kathryn Waterfield	Andrew Thomson	112
2016	Who Was Jules Verne?	Who HQ, James Buckley Jr.	Gregory Copeland	112
2016	Who Is Hillary Clinton?	Heather Alexander, Who HQ	Dede Putra	112
2016	Who Was Milton Bradley?	Who HQ, Kirsten Anderson	Tim Foley	112
2016	Who Is Bruce Springsteen?	Who HQ, Stephanie Sabol	Gregory Copeland	112
2016	Who Were The Three Stooges?	Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ	Ted Hammond	112
2016	Who Is Stevie Wonder?	Who HQ, Jim Gigliotti	Stephen Marchesi	112
2016	Who Was Charlie Chaplin?	Patricia Brennan Demuth, Who HQ	Gregory Copeland	112
2016	Who Was Jacqueline Kennedy?	Bonnie Bader, Who HQ	Joseph J. M. Qiu	112
2017	Who Was Princess Diana?	Who HQ, Ellen Labrecque	Jerry Hoare	112
2017	Who Is Sonia Sotomayor?	Megan Stine, Who HQ	Dede Putra	112
2017	Who Was Cesar Chavez?	Who HQ, Dana Meachen Rau	Ted Hammond	112
2017	Who Are the Rolling Stones?	Who HQ, Dana Meachen Rau	Andrew Thomson	112
2017	Who Was Pete Seeger?	Who HQ, Noel MacCarry	Stephen Marchesi	112
2017	Who Was Bob Marley?	Who HQ, Katie Ellison	Gregory Copeland	112
2017	Who Was Andrew Jackson?	Who HQ, Douglas Yacka	Jake Murray	112
2017	Who Are Venus and Serena Williams?	Who HQ, James Buckley Jr.	Andrew Thomson	112
2017	Who Is Pope Francis?	Stephanie Spinner, Who HQ	Dede Putra	112
2017	Who Was Alexander Hamilton?	Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ	Dede Putra	112
2017	Who Was Fidel Castro?	Who HQ, Sarah Fabiny	Ted Hammond	112
2017	Who Was Lewis Carroll?	Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ	Joseph J. M. Qiu	112
2017	Who Is Ralph Lauren?	Jane O'Connor, Who HQ	Stephen Marchesi	112
2017	Who Was Chuck Jones?	Who HQ, Jim Gigliotti	John Hinderliter	112
2017	Who Was Jane Austen?	Who HQ, Sarah Fabiny	Jerry Hoare	107
2017	Who Was Coretta Scott King?	Who HQ, Gail Herman	Gregory Copeland	112
2018	Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen?	Sherri L. Smith, Who HQ	Jake Murray	112
2018	Who Was Booker T. Washington?	Who HQ, James Buckley Jr.	Jake Murray	112
2018	Who Was Napoleon?	Who HQ, Jim Gigliotti	Gregory Copeland	112
2018	Knock! Knock! Who Was There?	Brian Elling, Who HQ	Andrew Thomson	128
2018	Who Was Henry VIII?	Who HQ, Ellen Labrecque	Jake Murray	112
2018	Who Was Aretha Franklin?	Nico Medina, Who HQ	Gregory Copeland	112
2018	Who Is the Dalai Lama?	Who HQ, Dana Meachen Rau	Dede Putra	112
2018	Who Was Leif Erikson?	Nico Medina, Who HQ	Dede Putra	112
2018	Who Is Pelé?	James Buckley Jr., Who HQ Who HQ	Andrew Thomson	112
2018	Who Was Selena?	Max Bisantz, Who HQ, Kate Bisantz	Joseph J. M. Qiu	112
2018	Who Is Bono?	Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ	Andrew Thomson	112
2018	Who Is Judy Blume?	Who HQ, Kirsten Anderson	Ted Hammond	112
2018	Who Was Nikola Tesla?	Who HQ, Jim Gigliotti	John Hinderliter	112
2019	Who Is Michael Jordan?	Who HQ, Kirsten Anderson	Dede Putra	112
2019	Who Was Norman Rockwell?	Who HQ, Sarah Fabiny	Gregory Copeland	112
2019	Who Was H. J. Heinz?	Michael Burgan, Who HQ	Stephen Marchesi	112
2019	Who Was Stephen Hawking?	Who HQ, Who HQ, Jim Gigliotti	Gregory Copeland	112
2019	Who Was Che Guevara?	Who HQ, Ellen Labrecque	Jerry Hoare	112
2019	Who Was P. T. Barnum?	Who HQ, Kirsten Anderson	Stephen Marchesi	112
2019	Who Is Oprah Winfrey?	Who HQ, Barbara Kramer	Dede Putra	112
2019	Who Is R. L. Stine?	Who HQ, M. D. Payne	Jake Murray	112
2019	Who Was Mister Rogers?	Diane Bailey, Who HQ	Dede Putra	112
2019	The Who Was? History of the World	Who HQ, Paula K. Manzanero	Robert Squier	176
2019	Who Was Sam Walton?	Who HQ, James Buckley Jr.	Ted Hammond	112
2019	Who Was Ruth Bader Ginsburg?	Who HQ Who HQ, Patricia Brennan Brennan Demuth	Jake Murray	112
2020	Who Is Jackie Chan?	Jody Jensen Shaffer, Who HQ	Gregory Copeland	112
2020	Who Was Richard Nixon?	Megan Stine, Who HQ	Manuel Gutierrez	112
2020	Who Is Temple Grandin?	Patricia Brennan Demuth, Who HQ	Robert Squier	112
2020	Who Was Harvey Milk?	Who HQ, Corinne A. Grinapol	Gregory Copeland	112
2020	Who Was Ida B. Wells?	Who HQ, Sarah Fabiny	Ted Hammond	112
2020	Who Is David Beckham?	Who HQ, Ellen Labrecque	John Hinderliter	112
2020	Who Was Celia Cruz?	Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ	Jake Murray	112
2020	Who Was Kobe Bryant?	Who HQ, Ellen Labrecque	Gregory Copeland	56
2020	Who Was Benedict Arnold?	Who HQ, James Buckley Jr.	Gregory Copeland	112
2020	Who Was Nellie Bly?	Who HQ, Margaret Gurevich	Laurie A. Conley	112
2020	Who Was Confucius?	Michael Burgan, Who HQ	Robert Squier	112
2020	Who Was Duke Ellington?	Who HQ, M. D. Payne	Gregory Copeland	112
2021	Who Was Catherine the Great?	Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ	Dede Putra	108
2021	Who Was Walt Whitman?	Who HQ, Kirsten Anderson	Tim Foley	112
2021	Who Was Levi Strauss?	Who HQ, Ellen Labrecque	Stephen Marchesi	112
2021	Who Is RuPaul?	Nico Medina, Who HQ	Andrew Thomson	112
2021	Who Was A. A. Milne?	Who HQ, Sarah Fabiny	Gregory Copeland	112
2021	Who Is Neil deGrasse Tyson?	Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ	Manuel Gutierrez	112
2021	Who Was Juliette Gordon Low?	Who HQ, Dana Meachen Rau	Dede Putra	112
2021	Who Were the Navajo Code Talkers?	Who HQ, James Buckley Jr.	Gregory Copeland	112
2021	Who Was David Bowie?	Who HQ, Margaret Gurevich	Andrew Thomson	112
2021	Who Were Stanley and Livingstone?	Who HQ, Jim Gigliotti	David Malan	112
2021	Who Is Queen Elizabeth II?	Megan Stine, Who HQ	Laurie A. Conley	112
2022	Who Is Dale Earnhardt Jr.?	David Stabler, Who HQ	Dede Putra	112
2022	The Who Was? Trivia Book	Brian Elling, Who HQ		112
2022	Who Was Charles Schulz?	Joan Holub, Who HQ	Tim Foley	112
2022	Who Was Ernest Hemingway?	Who HQ, Jim Gigliotti	Gregory Copeland	112
2022	Who Is Jimmy Carter?	David Stabler, Who HQ	Tim Foley	112
2022	Who Was Johnny Cash?	Who HQ, Jim Gigliotti	Gregory Copeland	112
2022	Who Was Ponce de León?	Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ	Dede Putra	112
2022	Who Was E. B. White?	Who HQ, Gail Herman	Dede Putra	112
2022	Who Was Georgia O'Keeffe?	Sarah Fabiny, Who HQ	Dede Putra	112
2022	Who Is Shaquille O'Neal?	Ellen Labrecque, Who HQ	Manuel Gutierrez	112
2022	Who Was Michelangelo?	Kirsten Anderson, Who HQ	Gregory Copeland	112
2022	Who Was Alex Trebek?	Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ	Ted Hammond	112
2023	Who Was Salvador Dalí?	Paula K. Manzanero, Who HQ	Gregory Copeland	112
2023	Who Is LeBron James?	Crystal Hubbard, Who HQ	Stephen Marchesi	112
2023	Who Was John McCain?	Michael Burgan, Who HQ	John Hinderliter	112
2023	Who Was Jim Thorpe?	James Buckley Jr., Who HQ	Stephen Marchesi	112
2023	Who Was Frank Sinatra?	Ellen Labrecque, Who HQ	Manuel Gutierrez	112
2023	Who Was John Lewis?	Who HQ, Crystal Hubbard	Stephen Marchesi	112
2024	Who Was Langston Hughes?	Who HQ, Billy Merrell	Gregory Copeland	112
2024	Who Is Michael Phelps?	Who HQ, Micah Hecht	Manuel Gutierrez	112
2024	Who Is Taylor Swift?	Who HQ, Kirsten Anderson	Gregory Copeland	112
2024	Who Is Billie Jean King?	Who HQ, Sarah Fabiny	Dede Putra	112
2024	Who Is Lin-Manuel Miranda?	Who HQ, Elijah Rey-David Matos	David Malan	112
2024	Who Is Shaun White?	Shawn Pryor, Who HQ	Andrew Thomson	112
2024	Who Was Shirley Chisholm?	Crystal Hubbard, Who HQ	Tim Foley	112
2025	Who Is Tony Hawk?	Who HQ	Andrew Thomson	112
2025	Who Is Carol Burnett?	David Stabler, Who HQ	Robert Squier	112
2025	Who Is Willie Nelson?	David Stabler, Who HQ	Tim Foley	112
2025	Who Was Wilma Mankiller?	Who HQ, Andrea Page	Stephen Marchesi	112
2025	Who Was Katherine Johnson?			112
2025	Who Is Beyoncé?			112
	Who Was Cleopatra?	Kathryn Waterfield, Who HQ	Manuel Gutierrez	112

Companion series

Who HQ Graphic Novels Series

17 books · Published 2021–2025

Year	Title	Author	Illustrator	Pages
2013	What Was the Hindenburg?	Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ	David Groff	112
2013	What Was the Battle of Gettysburg?	Jim O'Connor, Who HQ	John Mantha	106
2013	What Was the Gold Rush?	Joan Holub, Who HQ	Tim Tomkinson	112
2013	What Was the March on Washington?	Kathleen Krull, Who HQ	Tim Tomkinson	112
2013	What Was the Boston Tea Party?	Kathleen Krull, Who HQ	Lauren Mortimer	112
2013	What Was Pearl Harbor?	Patricia Brennan Demuth, Who HQ	John Mantha	112
2013	What Was the First Thanksgiving?	Joan Holub	Lauren MortimerᐧJames Bennett	112
2013	What Was the Alamo?	Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ	David Groff	112
2013	What Was the Underground Railroad?	Yona Zeldis McDonough, Who HQ	Lauren Mortimer	112
2014	What Was Ellis Island?	Patricia Brennan Demuth, Who HQ	David Groff	112
2014	What Was Pompeii?	Jim O'Connor, Who HQ	John Hinderliter	112
2014	What Is the Statue of Liberty?	Joan Holub, Who HQ	John Hinderliter	112
2014	What Is the Panama Canal?	Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ	Tim Foley	112
2014	What Was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?	Judith St. George, Who HQ	Tim Foley	112
2015	What Was D-Day?	Patricia Brennan Demuth, Who HQ	David Grayson Kenyon	112
2015	What Is the World Series?	Gail Herman, Who HQ	David Grayson Kenyon	112
2015	What Was Hurricane Katrina?	Who HQ, Robin Koontz	John Hinderliter	112
2015	What Were the Salem Witch Trials?	Joan Holub, Who HQ	Dede Putra	112
2015	What Is the Super Bowl?	Dina Anastasio, Who HQ	David Groff	112
2015	What Was the Great Depression?	Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ	Dede Putra	112
2016	What Was Woodstock?	Joan Holub, Who HQ	Gregory Copeland	112
2016	What Are the Summer Olympics?	Who HQ, Gail Herman	Stephen Marchesi	112
2016	What Is the Declaration of Independence?	Michael C. Harris, Who HQ	Jerry Hoare	112
2016	What Were the Twin Towers?	Jim O'Connor, Who HQ	Ted Hammond	112
2016	What Was the San Francisco Earthquake?	Thomas Hoobler, Dorothy Hoobler, Who HQ	Ted Hammond	112
2016	What Was the Great Chicago Fire?	Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ	Tim Foley	112
2017	What Was the Age of the Dinosaurs?	Megan Stine, Who HQ	Gregory Copeland	112
2017	What Was the Wild West?	Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ	Stephen Marchesi	112
2017	What Is Rock and Roll?	Jim O'Connor, Who HQ	Gregory Copeland	112
2017	What Was the Ice Age?	Nico Medina, Who HQ	David Groff	112
2017	What Are the Ten Commandments?	Yona Zeldis McDonough, Who HQ	Tim Foley	112
2018	What Is the World Cup?	Bonnie Bader, Who HQ	Stephen Marchesi	112
2018	What Was the Titanic?	Who HQ, Stephanie Sabol	Gregory Copeland	112
2018	What Was the Holocaust?	Who HQ, Gail Herman	Jerry Hoare	112
2018	What Is the Constitution?	Patricia Brennan Demuth, Who HQ	Tim Foley	112
2018	What Is Climate Change?	Who HQ, Gail Herman	John Hinderliter	112
2018	What Is the Women's Rights Movement?	Deborah Hopkinson, Who HQ	Laurie A. Conley	112
2018	What Were the Roaring Twenties?	Who HQ, Michele Mortlock	Jake Murray	112
2019	What Was Stonewall?	Nico Medina, Who HQ	Jake Murray	112
2019	What Is the Stanley Cup?	Who HQ, Gail Herman	Gregory Copeland	112
2019	What Is NASA?	Who HQ, Sarah Fabiny	Ted Hammond	112
2019	What Was the Vietnam War?	Jim O'Connor, Who HQ	Tim Foley	112
2019	What Was the Berlin Wall?	Nico Medina, Who HQ	Stephen Marchesi	112
2019	What Were the Negro Leagues?	Varian Johnson, Who HQ	Stephen Marchesi	112
2020	What Was the Bombing of Hiroshima?	Jess Brallier, Who HQ	Tim Foley	112
2020	What Are the Paralympic Games?	Gail Herman, Who HQ	Andrew Thomson	112
2020	What Is LEGO?	Jim O'Connor, Who HQ	Ted Hammond	112
2020	What Is the Civil Rights Movement?	Sherri L. Smith, Who HQ	Tim Foley	112
2021	What Is Nintendo?	Gina Shaw, Who HQ	Andrew Thomson	112
2021	What Was the Age of Exploration?	Who HQ, Jake Murray, Catherine Daly		112
2021	What Is Congress?	Who HQ, Jill Abramson	David Malan	112
2021	What Are the Winter Olympics?	Who HQ, Gail Herman	Jake Murray	112
2021	What Was the Plague?	Roberta Edwards, Who HQ	Dede Putra	112
2021	What Was the Harlem Renaissance?	Sherri L. Smith, Who HQ	Tim Foley	112
2022	What Are Castles and Knights?	Sarah Fabiny, Who HQ	Dede Putra	112
2022	What Is Juneteenth?	Who HQ, Kirsti Jewel	Manuel Gutierrez	112
2022	What Is the AIDS Crisis?	Nico Medina, Who HQ	Tim Foley	112
2022	What Is the Supreme Court?	Jill Abramson, Who HQ	Gregory Copeland	112
2022	What Was Reconstruction?	Sherri L. Smith, Who HQ	Tim Foley	112
2023	What Was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921?	Caleb Gayle, Who HQ	Tim Foley	112
2023	What Is the Women's World Cup?	Gina Shaw, Who HQ	Ted Hammond	112
2023	What Was World War I?	Nico Medina, Who HQ	Dede Putra	112
2023	What Was the Donner Party?	Ben Hubbard, Who HQ	Tim Foley	112
2023	What Was the Children's Blizzard of 1888?	Who HQ	Dede Putra	112
2024	What Was the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?	Who HQ, Kirsten Anderson	Dede Putra	112
2024	What Were the Shark Attacks of 1916?	Nico Medina, Who HQ	Tim Foley	112
2024	What Is a Presidential Election?	Douglas Yacka, Who HQ		112
2025	What Was the Renaissance?	Roberta Edwards, Who HQ	Gregory Copeland	112
	What Are Taylor Swift's Eras?			112
	What Is Lunar New Year?	Vivian Jun Kirklin, Who HQ	Gregory Copeland	112
	What Was the Industrial Revolution?			112

Year	Title	Author	Illustrator	Pages
2015	Where Is the Grand Canyon?	Jim O'Connor, Who HQ	Daniel Colon	112
2015	Where Is Mount Rushmore?	True Kelley, Who HQ	John Hinderliter	112
2015	Where Is the Great Wall?	Patricia Brennan Demuth, Who HQ	Jerry Hoare	112
2015	Where Is the White House?	Megan Stine, Who HQ	David Groff	112
2015	Where Is the Empire State Building?	Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ	Daniel Colon	112
2015	Where Is Mount Everest?	Nico Medina, Who HQ	John Hinderliter	112
2015	Where Are the Great Pyramids?	Who HQ, Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler	Jerry Hoare	112
2015	Where Is Niagara Falls?	Megan Stine, Who HQ	Tim Foley	112
2016	Where Is the Parthenon?	Roberta Edwards, Who HQ	John Hinderliter	112
2016	Where Is the Brooklyn Bridge?	Megan Stine, Who HQ	John Hinderliter	112
2016	Where Is Alcatraz?	Nico Medina, Who HQ	David Groff	112
2016	Where Is the Amazon?	Who HQ, Sarah Fabiny	Daniel Colon	112
2016	Where Is Stonehenge?	True Kelley, Who HQ	John Hinderliter	112
2016	Where Is the Great Barrier Reef?	Nico Medina, Who HQ	John Hinderliter	112
2017	Where Is the Colosseum?	Jim O'Connor, Who HQ	John O'Brien	112
2017	Where Is the Taj Mahal?	Who HQ, Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler	John Hinderliter	112
2017	Where Is the Eiffel Tower?	Who HQ, Dina Anastasio	Tim Foley	112
2017	Where Are the Galapagos Islands?	Megan Stine, Who HQ	John Hinderliter	112
2017	Where Is Easter Island?	Megan Stine, Who HQ	John Hinderliter	112
2017	Where Is the Mississippi River?	Who HQ, Dina Anastasio	Ted Hammond	112
2018	Where Is Our Solar System?	Who HQ, Stephanie Sabol	Ted Hammond	112
2018	Where Is Machu Picchu?	Megan Stine, Who HQ	John O'Brien	112
2018	Where Is Walt Disney World?	Joan Holub, Who HQ	Gregory Copeland	112
2018	Where Is the Bermuda Triangle?	Megan Stine, Who HQ	Tim Foley	112
2018	Where Is the Tower of London?	Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ	David Malan	112
2018	Where Is Area 51?	Who HQ, Paula K. Manzanero	Tim Foley	112
2019	Where Is Antarctica?	Who HQ, Sarah Fabiny	Jerry Hoare	112
2019	Where Is Hollywood?	Who HQ, Dina Anastasio	Tim Foley	112
2019	Where Is Broadway?	Francesco Sedita, Who HQ, Douglas Yacka	John Hinderliter	112
2019	Where Is the Kremlin?	Deborah Hopkinson, Who HQ	Dede Putra	112
2019	Where Is the Serengeti?	Nico Medina, Who HQ	Manuel Gutierrez	112
2019	Where Is the Vatican?	Megan Stine, Who HQ	Laurie A. Conley	112
2020	Where Were the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?	Who HQ, Yona Z. McDonough	Dede Putra	112
2020	Where Is the Congo?	Megan Stine, Who HQ	Dede Putra	112
2020	Where Is Chichen Itza?	Who HQ, Paula K. Manzanero	Dede Putra	112
2021	Where Are the Constellations?	Who HQ, Stephanie Sabol	Laurie A. Conley	112
2022	Where Is the North Pole?	Megan Stine, Who HQ	Robert Squier	112
2023	Where Is the Sahara Desert?	Sarah Fabiny, Who HQ	David Malan	112
2024	Where Is Jerusalem?	Who HQ, Ellen Morgan	Stephen Marchesi	112
2024	Where Is Yellowstone?	Sarah Fabiny, Who HQ	Stephen Marchesi	112
2025	Where Is Tornado Alley?	Wes Locher, Who HQ	Dede Putra	112
2025	Where Are the Everglades?	Nico Medina, Who HQ	Gregory Copeland	112

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Who HQ

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Stephanie Spinner

Dennis Brindell Fradin

Jess Brallier

Judith Bloom Fradin

Tui Sutherland

Catherine Gourley

Kate Boehm Jerome

Gare Thompson

April Jones Prince

S. A. Kramer

Joyce Milton

Deborah Hopkinson

Roberta Edwards

Joan Holub

Margaret Frith

Geoff Edgers

Celeste Mannis

Ann Abramson

Bonnie Bader

Janet B. Pascal

June Eding

Whitney Stewart

Ann Waldron

Gail Herman

Pam Pollack

Meg Belviso

Patricia Brennan Demuth

Megan Stine

Jim O'Connor

Sarah Fabiny