Jazzy’s Nobel Prize Day Bookshelf

 Five different Nobel prizes have been awarded almost every year since 1901 to individuals and organizations deemed to have made the most important contributions to world peace, physics, chemistry, medicine and literature. A sixth prize, for economic sciences, was added in 1968. 

Jazzy’s Nobel Prize Day Bookshelf celebrates a number of well-known Nobel Laureates, as well as Alfred Nobel — the man who made the Nobel Prize possible. 

Alfred Nobel: The Man Behind the Peace Prize by Kathy-Jo Wargin

Mario and the Hole in the Sky: How a Chemist Saved Our Planet by Elizabeth Rusch

Grandad Mandela by Ambassador Zindzi Mandela

Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People by Monica Brown

Planting Peace: The Story of Wangari Maathai by Gwendolyn Hooks

My Name Is Gabito: The Life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Monica Brown

Teresa: My First Mother Teresa (Little People Big Dreams Young Reader Edition) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

Marie Curie (Little People, Big Dreams) by Isabel Sanchez Vegara

Desmond and the Very Mean Word by Desmond Tutu

To Dare Mighty Things: The Life of Theodore Roosevelt (Big Words) by Doreen Rappaport

The House That Jane Built: A Story about Jane Addams by Tanya Lee Stone

On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein by Jennifer Berne

Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope by Nikki Grimes

Malala's Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai

A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation by Barry Wittenstein