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Reading order
Who Was/Is...? Books in Order
This page lists the complete Who Was/Is...? reading order by Jane O’Connor, with book numbers, publication years, and a publication-order view for readers who want to start at the beginning.
Updated 2026-06-22 / 220 books / 2002-2024
Who Was/Is...? Reading Order
Who Was/Is...? Books by Publication Order
2002
Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?(By: Yona Zeldis McDonough)
#1
2002
Who Was Annie Oakley?(By: Stephanie Spinner)
#2
2002
Who Was Ben Franklin?(By: Dennis Brindell Fradin)
#3
2002
Who Was Albert Einstein?(By: Jess M. Brallier)
#4
2002
Who Was Sacagawea?(By: Judith Bloom Fradin)
#5
2002
Who Was Harry Houdini?(By: Tui T. Sutherland)
#6
2002
Who Was Maria Tallchief?(By: Catherine Gourley)
#7
2002
Who Was Amelia Earhart?(By: Kate Boehm Jerome)
#8
2003
Who Was Thomas Jefferson?(By: Dennis Brindell Fradin)
#9
2003
Who Was Helen Keller?(By: Gare Thompson)
#10
2004
Who Was Eleanor Roosevelt?(By: Gare Thompson)
#11
2004
Who Was Mark Twain?(By: April Jones Prince)
#12
2004
Who Was Ferdinand Magellan?(By: Sydelle Kramer)
#13
2004
Who Was Ronald Reagan?(By: Joyce Milton)
#14
2004
Who Was Louis Armstrong?(By: Yona Zeldis McDonough)
#15
2004
Who Was John F. Kennedy?(By: Yona Zeldis McDonough)
#16
2005
Who Was Charles Darwin?(By: Deborah Hopkinson)
#17
2005
Who Was Johnny Appleseed?(By: Joan Holub)
#18
2005
Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?(By: Roberta Edwards)
#19
2005
Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?(By: Margaret Frith)
#20
2006
Who Were the Beatles?(By: Geoff Edgers)
#21
2006
Who Was King Tut?(By: Roberta Edwards)
#22
2006
Who Was Daniel Boone?(By: Sydelle Kramer)
#23
2006
Who Was William Shakespeare?(By: Celeste Davidson Mannis)
#24
2007
Who Was Anne Frank?(By: Ann Abramson)
#25
2007
Who Was Marco Polo?(By: Joan Holub)
#26
2007
Who Was Elvis Presley?(By: Geoff Edgers)
#27
2007
Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?(By: Bonnie Bader)
#28
2008
Who Was Abraham Lincoln?(By: Janet B. Pascal)
#29
2008
Who Was Neil Armstrong?(By: Roberta Edwards)
#30
2008
Who Was Queen Elizabeth?(By: June Eding)
#31
2009
Who Was George Washington?(By: Roberta Edwards)
#32
2009
Who Was Pablo Picasso?(By: True Kelley)
#33
2009
Who Was Walt Disney?(By: Whitney Stewart)
#34
2009
Who Is Barack Obama?(By: Roberta Edwards)
#35
2009
Who Was Claude Monet?(By: Ann Waldron)
#36
2009
Who Was Franklin Roosevelt?(By: Margaret Frith)
#37
2010
Who Was Jim Henson?(By: Joan Holub)
#38
2010
Who Was Jackie Robinson?(By: Gail Herman)
#39
2010
Who Was Rosa Parks?(By: Yona Zeldis McDonough)
#40
2011
Who Was Dr. Seuss?(By: Janet B. Pascal)
#41
2011
Who Was Paul Revere?(By: Roberta Edwards)
#42
2012
Who Was Steve Jobs?(By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
#43
2012
Who Was Babe Ruth?(By: Joan Holub)
#44
2012
Who Is J.K. Rowling?(By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
#45
2012
Who Was Roald Dahl?(By: True Kelley)
#46
2012
Who Is Jane Goodall?(By: Roberta Edwards)
#47
2012
Who Was Maurice Sendak?(By: Janet B. Pascal)
#48
2013
Who Is Bill Gates?(By: Patricia Brennan Demuth)
#49
2013
Who Was Sally Ride?(By: Megan Stine)
#50
2013
Who Was Christopher Columbus?(By: Bonnie Bader)
#51
2013
Who Is Bob Dylan?(By: Jim O'Connor)
#52
2013
Who Is Michelle Obama?(By: Megan Stine)
#53
2013
Who Was Alexander Graham Bell?(By: Bonnie Bader)
#54
2013
Who Was Davy Crockett?(By: Gail Herman)
#55
2013
Who Was Laura Ingalls Wilder?(By: Patricia Brennan Demuth)
#56
2013
Who Was Frida Kahlo?(By: Sarah Fabiny)
#57
2013
Who Is Steven Spielberg?(By: Stephanie Spinner)
#58
2013
Who Was Milton Hershey?(By: James Buckley Jr.)
#59
2013
Who Was Ernest Shackleton?(By: James Buckley Jr.)
#60
2014
Who Was Louis Braille?(By: Scott Anderson)
#61
2014
Who Was Nelson Mandela?(By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
#62
2014
Who Was Abigail Adams?(By: True Kelley)
#63
2014
Who Is Dolly Parton?(By: True Kelley)
#64
2014
Who Was Theodore Roosevelt?(By: Michael Burgan)
#65
2014
Who Was Bruce Lee?(By: Jim Gigliotti)
#66
2014
Who Is George Lucas?(By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
#67
2014
Who Were the Wright Brothers?(By: James Buckley Jr.)
#68
2014
Who Was Ulysses S. Grant?(By: Megan Stine)
#69
2014
Who Was Robert E. Lee?(By: Bonnie Bader)
#70
2014
Who Was Clara Barton?(By: Stephanie Spinner)
#71
2014
Who Was Queen Victoria?(By: Jim Gigliotti)
#72
2014
Who Was Muhammad Ali?(By: James Buckley Jr.)
#73
2014
Who Was Marie Curie?(By: Megan Stine)
#74
2014
Who Was Henry Ford?(By: Michael Burgan)
#75
2014
Who Was Roberto Clemente?(By: James Buckley Jr.)
#76
2014
Who Was Susan B. Anthony?(By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
#77
2014
Who Was Rachel Carson?(By: Sarah Fabiny)
#78
2014
Who Was Julius Caesar?(By: Nico Medina)
#79
2014
Who Was Isaac Newton?(By: Janet B. Pascal)
#80
2014
Who Was Gandhi?(By: Dana Meachen Rau)
#81
2014
Who Was Stan Lee?(By: Geoff Edgers)
#82
2014
Who Was Alfred Hitchcock?(By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
#83
2014
Who Was Charles Dickens?(By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
#84
2014
Who Was Genghis Khan?(By: Nico Medina)
#85
2014
Who Was Sitting Bull?(By: Stephanie Spinner)
#86
2014
Who Was Betsy Ross?(By: James Buckley Jr.)
#87
2014
Who Was Andy Warhol?(By: Kirsten Anderson)
#88
2014
Who Is Gloria Steinem?(By: Sarah Fabiny)
#89
2014
Who Was Frederick Douglass?(By: April Jones Prince)
#90
2015
Who Was Galileo?(By: Patricia Brennan Demuth)
#91
2015
Who Is Wayne Gretzky?(By: Gail Herman)
#92
2015
Who Was Robert Ripley?(By: Kirsten Anderson)
#93
2015
Who Was Jesus?(By: Ellen Morgan)
#94
2015
Who Was Jacques Cousteau?(By: Nico Medina)
#95
2015
Who Was Harriet Beecher Stowe?(By: Dana Meachen Rau)
#96
2015
Who Was Winston Churchill?(By: Ellen Labrecque)
#97
2015
Who Was Mother Teresa?(By: Jim Gigliotti)
#98
2015
Who Was Steve Irwin?(By: Dina Anastasio)
#99
2015
Who Was Woodrow Wilson?(By: Margaret Frith)
#100
2015
Who Was Beatrix Potter?(By: Sarah Fabiny)
#101
2015
Who Was J. R. R. Tolkien?(By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
#102
2015
Who Is Richard Branson?(By: Michael Burgan)
#103
2015
Who Was Edgar Allan Poe?(By: Jim Gigliotti)
#104
2015
Who Were the Brothers Grimm?(By: Avery Reed)
#105
2015
Who Was Jesse Owens?(By: James Buckley Jr.)
#106
2015
Who Is Malala Yousafzai?(By: Dinah Brown)
#107
2015
Who Is Derek Jeter?(By: Gail Herman)
#108
2015
Who Is Jeff Kinney?(By: Patrick Kinney)
#109
2015
Who Is (Your Name Here)?(By: Paula K. Manzanero)
#110
2015
Who Was Julia Child?(By: Geoff Edgers)
#111
2015
Who Was Marie Antoinette?(By: Dana Meachen Rau)
#112
2015
Who Was Seabiscuit?(By: James Buckley Jr.)
#113
2015
Who Was Blackbeard?(By: James Buckley Jr.)
#114
2015
Who Was George Washington Carver?(By: Jim Gigliotti)
#115
2015
Who Was Sojourner Truth?(By: Yona Zeldis McDonough)
#116
2015
Who Was Michael Jackson?(By: Megan Stine)
#117
2015
Who Was Frank Lloyd Wright?(By: Ellen Labrecque)
#118
2016
Who Was Maya Angelou?(By: Ellen Labrecque)
#119
2016
Who Was Lucille Ball?(By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
#120
2016
Who Was Joan of Arc?(By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
#121
2016
Who Is Elton John?(By: Kirsten Anderson)
#122
2016
Who Was Jules Verne?(By: James Buckley Jr.)
#123
2016
Who Was Alexander the Great?(By: Robin Waterfield,Kathryn Waterfield)
#124
2016
Who Was Milton Bradley?(By: Bonnie Bader)
#125
2016
Who Is Hillary Clinton?(By: Heather Alexander)
#126
2016
Who Was? Mad Libs(By: Paula K. Manzanero)
#127
2016
Who Is Bruce Springsteen?(By: Stephanie Sabol)
#128
2016
Who Is Stevie Wonder?(By: Jim Gigliotti)
#129
2016
Who Were The Three Stooges?(By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
#130
2016
Who Was Jacqueline Kennedy?(By: Bonnie Bader)
#131
2016
Who Was Charlie Chaplin?(By: Patricia Brennan Demuth)
#132
2017
Who Is Sonia Sotomayor?(By: Megan Stine)
#133
2017
Who Was Cesar Chavez?(By: Dana Meachen Rau)
#134
2017
Who Was Princess Diana?(By: Ellen Labrecque)
#135
2017
Who Are the Rolling Stones?(By: Dana Meachen Rau)
#136
2017
Who Was Bob Marley?(By: Katie Ellison)
#137
2017
Who Was Pete Seeger?(By: Noel Maccarry)
#138
2017
Who Was Andrew Jackson?(By: Douglas Yacka)
#139
2017
Who Is Pope Francis?(By: Stephanie Spinner)
#140
2017
Who Are Venus and Serena Williams?(By: James Buckley Jr.)
#141
2017
Who Was Alexander Hamilton?(By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
#142
2017
Who Was Fidel Castro?(By: Sarah Fabiny)
#143
2017
Who Was Lewis Carroll?(By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
#144
2017
Who Is Ralph Lauren?
#145
2017
Who Was Coretta Scott King?(By: Gail Herman)
#146
2017
Who Was Chuck Jones?(By: Jim Gigliotti)
#147
2017
Who Was Jane Austen?(By: Sarah Fabiny)
#148
2018
Knock! Knock! Who Was There?(By: Brian Elling)
#149
2018
Who Was Henry VIII?(By: Ellen Labrecque)
#150
2018
Who Was Booker T. Washington?(By: James Buckley)
#151
2018
Who Is the Dalai Lama?(By: Dana Meachen Rau)
#152
2018
Who Was Aretha Franklin?(By: Nico Medina)
#153
2018
Who Was Leif Erikson?(By: Nico Medina)
#154
2018
Who Is Pele?(By: James Buckley Jr.)
#155
2018
Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen?(By: Sherri L. Smith)
#156
2018
Who Was Selena?(By: Max Bisantz)
#157
2018
The Who Was? Activity Book(By: Jordan London)
#158
2018
Who Is Judy Blume?(By: Kirsten Anderson)
#159
2018
Who Is Bono?(By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
#160
2018
Who Was Nikola Tesla?(By: Jim Gigliotti)
#161
2018
Who Was Napoleon?(By: Jim Gigliotti)
#162
2019
Who Is Michael Jordan?(By: Kirsten Anderson)
#163
2019
Who Was H. J. Heinz?(By: Michael Burgan)
#164
2019
Who Was Norman Rockwell?(By: Sarah Fabiny)
#165
2019
Who Was Stephen Hawking?(By: Jim Gigliotti)
#166
2019
Who Was Che Guevara?(By: Ellen Labrecque)
#167
2019
Who Was P. T. Barnum?(By: Kirsten Anderson)
#168
2019
Who Is Oprah Winfrey?(By: Barbara Kramer)
#169
2019
Who Is R. L. Stine?(By: M.D. Payne)
#170
2019
Who Was Harriet Tubman?(By: Yona Zeldis McDonough)
#171
2019
Who Was Mister Rogers?(By: Diane Bailey)
#172
2019
The Who Was? History of the World(By: Paula K. Manzanero)
#173
2019
Who Was Sam Walton?(By: James Buckley Jr.)
#174
2019
Who Is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?(By: Patricia Brennan Demuth)
#175
2020
Who Is Jackie Chan?(By: Jody Jensen Shaffer)
#176
2020
Who Was Richard Nixon?(By: Megan Stine)
#177
2020
Who Is Temple Grandin?(By: Patricia Brennan Demuth)
#178
2020
Who Was Harvey Milk?(By: Corinne A. Grinapol)
#179
2020
Who Was Ida B. Wells?(By: Sarah Fabiny)
#180
2020
Who Is David Beckham?(By: Ellen Labrecque)
#181
2020
Who Was Celia Cruz?(By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
#182
2020
Who Was Benedict Arnold?(By: James Buckley Jr.)
#183
2020
Who Was Nellie Bly?(By: Margaret Gurevich)
#184
2020
Who Was Confucius?(By: Michael Burgan)
#185
2020
Who Was Duke Ellington?(By: M.D. Payne)
#186
2021
Who Was Catherine the Great?(By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
#187
2021
Who Was Walt Whitman?(By: Kirsten Anderson)
#188
2021
Who Was Levi Strauss?(By: Ellen Labrecque)
#189
2021
Who Is RuPaul?(By: Nico Medina)
#190
2021
Who Is Neil deGrasse Tyson?(By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
#191
2021
Who Was A. A. Milne?(By: Sarah Fabiny)
#192
2021
Who Was Juliette Gordon Low?(By: Dana Meachen Rau)
#193
2021
Who Were the Navajo Code Talkers?(By: James Buckley Jr.)
#194
2021
Who Was David Bowie?(By: Margaret Gurevich)
#195
2021
Who Were Stanley and Livingstone?(By: Jim Gigliotti)
#196
2021
Who Was Queen Elizabeth II?(By: Megan Stine)
#197
2022
Who Is Dale Earnhardt Jr.?(By: David Stabler)
#198
2022
The Who Was? Trivia Book(By: Brian Elling)
#199
2022
Who Was Charles Schulz?(By: Joan Holub)
#200
2022
Who Was Ernest Hemingway?(By: Jim Gigliotti)
#201
2022
Who Is Jimmy Carter?(By: David Stabler)
#202
2022
Who Was Johnny Cash?(By: Jim Gigliotti)
#203
2022
Who Was Ponce de Le’n?(By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
#204
2022
Who Was E. B. White?(By: Gail Herman)
#205
2022
Who Was Georgia O'Keeffe?(By: Sarah Fabiny)
#206
2022
Who Is Shaquille O'Neal?(By: Ellen Labrecque)
#207
2022
Who Was Michelangelo?(By: Kirsten Anderson)
#208
2022
Who Was Alex Trebek?(By: Meg Belviso,Pamela Pollack)
#209
2023
Who Was Salvador Dal’?(By: Paula K Manzanero)
#210
2023
Who Is Lebron James?(By: Crystal Hubbard)
#211
2023
Who Was John McCain?(By: Michael Burgan)
#212
2023
Who Is Simone Biles?(By: Stefanie Loh)
#213
2023
Who Was Jim Thorpe?(By: James Buckley)
#214
2023
Who Was Frank Sinatra?(By: Ellen Labrecque)
#215
2023
Who Was John Lewis?(By: Crystal Hubbard)
#216
2024
Who Is Taylor Swift?(By: Kirsten Anderson)
#217
2024
Who Is Shaun White?(By: Shawn Pryor)
#218
2024
Who Is Cynthia Erivo?(By: Crystal Hubbard)
#219
2024
Who Was Shirley Chisholm?(By: Crystal Hubbard)
#220
Questions readers ask
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How many Who Was/Is...? books are there?
This catalog currently lists 220 Who Was/Is...? books published across 2002-2024.
Who writes the Who Was/Is...? books?
Who Was/Is...? is listed as a book series by Jane O’Connor.
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