Ask HN: Looking for kids books about famous people

I've been telling stories about various famous people (mostly scientists and some composers) that I am reasonably well familiar with to my 6yo. He loves it and is asking for more, but I am running out of [good] material.

Me reading wikipedia the night before and then paraphrasing to my kid is getting "old" and he is getting interested in reading on his own, etc.

Does anyone have recommendations for quality kids books that have various stories about famous people like this (e.g. what they did, how went about doing it, etc.)

Thank you!

Maybe won’t tick all your boxes, but the ‘Little People, Big Dreams’ books are age-appropriate and our nearly eight year-old is delighting in building a collection of them. See https://littlepeoplebigdreams.com

'Three Cheers for Inventors!' is very fun, with a comic-strip style presentation (but still entirely accurate to history) - ISBN 978-1406301717.

Have you considered the most straightforward option: Wikipedia itself? I was lapping up Wikipedia at age 6 and I've never stopped reading it since. It goes without saying that I haven't run out of articles yet! Another advantage is that it's easy to print hard copies, and if the language is too complex there is the 'Simple English' language Wikipedia.

Kinda old and was in French, but my dad owned “L’encyclopédie tout-connaitre” (know-all encyclopedia) and it was wonderful. It was also 24 volumes and each was quite large but not thick. It had amazing illustrations and introduced anyone famous born before the 70s, great pieces of arts and various countries. Each subject was 2 to 8 page of texts with one or 2 illustration per page. It’s the closest to what you’re looking for. An example of what it looked like:

https://imgur.com/uzYpb32

I don’t know if there’s anything similar in English and modern, but I have DK’s guide to classical music and their History Book. And they are concise enough.

The Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne has been a hit in our household at bedtime. Each book in the series has Jack and Annie, school-aged brother and sister, travel back in time on secret missions to help famous women and men from history.