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Little people, big dreams treasury : 50 stories of brilliant dreamers
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- Summary
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Presents 50 biographies from the popular series, rewritten for an older audience and each accompanied by a timeline, featuring extra information, important dates, and photos.
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- Creator
- [Emmeline Pankhurst, Rosa Parks, and Maya Angelou [biography] text, Lisbeth Kaiser ; all other [biography] text, María Isabel Sánchez Vegara ; additional text by Claire Saunders and Robin Pridy].
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Beverly, MA : Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2021
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- Physical Details
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- 223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780711264175, 0711264171
- OCLC
- on1237346553
- Anthology.
- Original concept of the series by María Isabel Sánchez Vegara.
- Biography texts originally published separately in simplified form for children ages 4-7.
- Includes index.
- Text by María Isabel Sánchez Vegara translated from the Spanish.
- 1790-1885. Mary Shelley ; Ada Lovelace ; Harriet Tubman ; Emmeline Pankhurst ; Marie Curie ; Mahatma Gandhi ; Maria Montessori ; Ernest Shackleton ; Lucy Maud Mongomery ; 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 -- The 51st dreamer -- Glossary
Subjects
- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
- Biography.
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