Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury: 50 Stories of Brilliant Dreamers

Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury: 50 Stories of Brilliant Dreamers

by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Lisbeth Kaiser
Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury: 50 Stories of Brilliant Dreamers

Little People, BIG DREAMS: Treasury: 50 Stories of Brilliant Dreamers

by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Lisbeth Kaiser

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Overview

*Amazon Editors’ 2023 Holiday Gift Pick*

Dive deeper into the world of Little People, BIG DREAMS with this beautifully packaged and highly giftable keepsake treasury featuring 50 dreamers from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling series.


Learn more about each of your favourite dreamers with new in-depth stories, facts and figures in this beautifully crafted compendium.Each story is rewritten to be appropriate for an older audience. Revisit best-loved figures from the series and some new ones, too, including Frida Kahlo, Coco Chanel, Maya Angelou, Amelia Earhart, David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg, Elton John, John Lennon, Malala Yousafzai, Mindy Kaling, and Prince.

From inspiring artists and passionate climate activists to intrepid explorers and groundbreaking musicians, this collection goes further than the original series into the lives of these iconic figures, perfect for curious minds who always want to know more!

Printed with gold gilded page edges and with an interior reading ribbon, this luxury keepsake treasury makes the perfect gift for holidays, birthdays, and more.

Each of the beautifully written biographies is accompanied by a timeline, featuring extra information, important dates and real photos

Little People, BIG DREAMS is a best-selling biography series for kids that explores the lives of outstanding people, from designers and artists to scientists and activists. All of them achieved incredible things, yet each began life as a child with a dream.

This empowering series of books offers inspiring messages to children of all ages, in a range of formats. The board books are told in simple sentences, perfect for reading aloud to babies and toddlers. The hardcover and paperback versions present expanded stories for beginning readers. With rewritten text for older children, the treasuries each bring together a multitude of dreamers in a single volume. You can also collect a selection of the books by theme in boxed gift sets. Activity books and a journal provide even more ways to make the lives of these role models accessible to children.
 
Inspire the next generation of outstanding people who will change the world with Little People, BIG DREAMS!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780711264175
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Publication date: 11/09/2021
Series: Little People, BIG DREAMS Series
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 804,450
Product dimensions: 9.90(w) x 10.60(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range: 9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara, born in Barcelona, Spain, is a writer and creative director in constant search of new concepts for children’s books. In 2014, she created a book for her two twin nieces for their birthday, which shortly thereafter became the first book in the Little People, BIG DREAMS series. This multimillion-copy bestselling series of picture books explores the lives of outstanding people. From Mahatma Gandhi to Aretha Franklin, to Prince, Sánchez Vegara researches complex careers and makes them accessible to young children, with her unique and mindful style of writing. She works with a diverse team of illustrators to make each book lively, eye-catching and motivating. Working for more than fifteen years for clients in top advertising agencies, her books combine creativity with learning, aiming to establish a new and fresh relationship between children and pop culture. ​

Lisbeth Kaiser is a children’s book author and copywriter. She specialises in children’s books about revolutionary people. Two of her books in the Little People, BIG DREAMS series, Maya Angelou and Emmeline Pankhurst, were selected for the ALA’s Amelia Bloomer Book List, recognising the best feminist books for young readers. Lisbeth lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.

Table of Contents

1790–1885
Mary Shelley
Ada Lovelace
Harriet Tubman
Emmeline Pankhurst
Marie Curie
Mahatma Gandhi
Maria Montessori
Ernest Shackleton
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Coco Chanel
1885–1920
Georgia O’Keeffe
Agatha Christie
Amelia Earhart
Josephine Baker
Frida Kahlo
Astrid Lindgren
Alan Turing
Rosa Parks
Jesse Owens
Ella Fitzgerald
1920–1940
David Attenborough
Maya Angelou
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Audrey Hepburn
Anne Frank
Corazon Aquino
Jane Goodall
Rudolf Nureyev
Wilma Rudolph
John Lennon
1940–1947
Pelé
Bruce Lee
Vivienne Westwood
Bob Dylan
Stephen Hawking
Muhammad Ali
Aretha Franklin
Billie Jean King
Dolly Parton
David Bowie
1947–2003
Elton John
Zaha Hadid
Evonne Goolagong
Steve Jobs
Prince
Ayrton Senna
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Mindy Kaling
Malala Yousafzai
Greta Thunberg
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