Title: Florence Nightingale (Little People, Big Dreams) Writer: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, illustrated by Kelsey Garrity-Riley Publishing House: Frances Lincoln Children’ s Books Date of Publication: April 12th 2022 Rating: 5 stars ‘’Never give nor take an excuse.’’ Florence Nightingale 1820, Florence, Italy. A child with a brilliant mind and a golden heart is born….
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Amanda Gorman (Little People, Big Dreams)
Title: Amanda Gorman (Little People, Big Dreams) Writer: Maria Izabel Sanchez Vegara (illustrated by Queenbe Monyei) Publishing House: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books Rating: 5 stars “There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.” Amanda Gorman A little girl from Los Angeles adores reading….
Charles Dickens (Little People, Big Dreams)
Title: Charles Dickens (Little People, Big Dreams) Writer: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, illustrated by Isobel Ross Publishing House: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books Date of Publication: November 9th 2021 Rating: 5 stars “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” Charles Dickens (Our Mutual Friend) A young boy sees his world…
Hans Christian Andersen (Little People, Big Dreams)
Title: Hans Christian Andersen (Little People, Big Dreams) Writer: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, illustrated by Maxine Lee-Mackie Publishing House: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books Date of Publication: April 20th 2021 Rating: 5 stars ‘’The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things. Hans Christian Andersen A…
Michael Jordan
(Little People, Big Dreams) Title: Michael Jordan (Little People, Big Dreams) Writer: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, illustrated by Lo Harris Publishing House: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books Date of Publication: December 7th 2021 Rating: 5 stars ‘’I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.’’ Michael Jordan The boy of our…
The Met Georgia O’Keefe
Title: The Met Georgia O’Keeffe: She Saw the World in a Flower Writer: Gabrielle Balkan, illustrated by Josy Bloggs Publishing House: DK Children Date of Publication: August 24th 2021 Rating: 5 stars ‘’My painting is what I give back to the world for what the world gives to me.’’Georgia O’Keefe, 1940 Wisconsin, November 15, 1887….
Rosalind Franklin (Little People, Big Dreams)
Title: Rosalind Franklin (Little People, Big Dreams) Writer: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara (illustrated by Naomi Wilkinson Publishing House: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books Date of Publication: August 24th 2021 Rating: 5 stars ‘’I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primaeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race…
Louise Bourgeois (Little People, Big Dreams)
Title: Louise Bourgeiois (Little People, Big Dreams) Writer: Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara, illustrated by Helena Perez Garcia Publishing House: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books Date of Publication: October 6th 2020 Rating: 5 stars ‘To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.’ You are born on a beautiful, snowy Christmas day. You…
Ernest Shackleton (Little People, Big Dreams)
Title: Ernest Shackleton (Little People, Big Dreams) Writer: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara (illustrated by Olivia Holden) Publishing House: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books Date of Publication: September 1st 2020 Rating: 5 stars ‘’To be brave cheerily, to be patient with a glad heart, to stand the agonies of thirst with laughter and song, to walk beside…
Corazon Aquino (Little People, Big Dreams)
Title: Corazon Aquino (Little People, Big Dreams) Writer: Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara, illustrated by Ginnie Hsu Publishing House: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books Date of Publication: August 4th 2020 Rating: 5 stars ‘’One must be frank to be relevant.’’ Corazon Aquino Cory was born in the beautiful Philippines, the country of a Thousand Islands. She loved…
Wilma Rudolph
(Little People, Big Dreams) Title: Wilma Rudolph (Little People, Big Dreams) Writer: Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara, illustrated by Amelia Flower Publishing House: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books Date of Publication: June 4th 2019 Rating: 5 stars ‘’Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this…
Alan Turing (Little People, Big Dreams)
Title: Alan Turing (Little People, Big Dreams) Writer: Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara (illustrated by Ashling Lindsay) Publishing House:Frances Lincoln Children’s Books Date of Publication:April 7th 2020 Rating:5 stars ”Even a broken clock is right twice a day.” (quote from the 2014 film The Imitation Game) Alan was a shy boy. His brain could work in such mysterious,…
Maria Montessori (Little People, Big Dreams)
Title:Maria Montessori (Little People, Big Dreams) Writer: Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara (illustrated by Raquel Martín) Publishing House:Frances Lincoln Children’s Books Date of Publication:March 5th 2019 Rating:5 stars ‘’The greatest sign of success for a teacher…is to be able to say, the children are now working as if I did not exist.’’ …
Mary Shelley
Title: Mary Shelley Writer: Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara & illustrated by Yelena Bryksenkova Publishing House: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books Date of Publication: October 1st 2019 Rating: 5 stars I have long coveted the Little People, Big Dreams series. It seems to me that the time has come for the intermediate students to familiarize themselves with writers, scientists, artists that have shaped…
Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
Title: Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World Writer: Pénélope Bagieu Publishing House: First Second Date of Publication: March 6th 2018 Rating: 5 stars There are dozens of books dedicated to women (well-known and less so) who defined their field and couldn’t care less about what society and established norms had dictated for them. Many of these books are successful,…
The Artist Who Loved Cats: The Inspiring Tale of Théophile – Alexandre Steinlen
Title: The Artist Who Loved Cats: The Inspiring Tale of Théophile – Alexandre Steinlen Writer: Susan Schaefer Bernardo (illustrations by Courtenay Fletcher) Publishing House: Inner Flower Child Books Date of Publication: June 6th 2019 Rating: 5 stars ‘’Where shall I start? How does an artist begin to make art?’’ Paris is a city forever linked with certain images in…
Unquiet Women
Title: Unquiet Women: From the Dusk of the Roman Empire to the Dawn of the Enlightenment Writer: Max Adams Publishing House: Head of Zeus Date of Publication: November 1st 2018 Rating: 4 stars ‘’Emerging from these themes is a conviction that history is polyphonic – that it must be told by many voices; that the ear must be…
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