Memoirs or Semi-Autobiographical Picture Books

Year of the Jungle by Suzanne Collins

Want to be in a Band by Suzzy Roche

Boy and a Jaguar by Alan Rabinowitz

The Scraps Book by Lois Ehlert

The Year I Didn't Go to School by Giselle Potter

• Pub Date: 2002
• Follows the author's childhood experiences traveling with her family's theater company for a year. 

Someone Like Me by Patricia MacLachlan

• Pub Date: 2017
• About a child who grows up to be a writer

Don't Call Me Grandma by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

• Pub Date: 2016
• Based on the author's great-grandmother.

When I was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant

• Pub Date: 192
• Based on Rylant's childhood memories growing up in Appalachia. 

Once Upon a Company by Wendy Anderson Halperin

• Pub Date: 1998
• Based on the author's children who started a company selling wreaths before Christmas one year to keep busy and earn money for college. 

Related: Based on True Stories

I Pledge Allegiance by Pat Mora and Libby Martinez

• Pub Date: 2014
• Based on the authors' aunt who became a US citizen when she was in her 70s. 

Anna & Solomon by Elaine Snyder

• Pub Date: 2014
• Based on the author's grandparents story of coming to America.

Sophie Scott Goes South by Alison Lester

• Pub Date: 2012
• The author traveled to Antarctica and wrote this fictional story from a child's perspective based on her trip. 

Trio: the Tale of a Three-legged Cat by Andrea Wisnewski

• Pub Date: 2017
• Based on a real cat adopted by the author's brother and his husband. 

Up in the Leaves by Shira Boss

• Pub Date: 2018
• See also: Cities 
• Based on the true story of the author's husband, who built treehouses in Central Park. 

Trouper by Meg Kearney

• Pub Date: 2013
• Based on the story of the author's rescue dog.