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Little People Big DREAMS – Simone de Beauvoir
SALE !RM30.00RM28.50Meet Simone de Beauvoir, the great French philosopher and mother of feminism. When Simone de Beauvoir was a little girl, her father would proudly boast that she had the brain of a man—whatever that meant. But later, after years of studying, Simone would write a book that challenged the role…
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Little People Big DREAMS – David Bowie
SALE !RM30.00RM28.50Meet David Bowie, the starman who dazzled audiences with his music. As a child, young David had a head full of songs and ideas. He was inspired by the pop and mod scenes in Britain to pick up the saxophone. After earning his stripes in some of the coolest bands in…
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Little People Big DREAMS – Coco Chanel
SALE !RM30.00RM28.50Meet Coco Chanel, international style icon. Following the death of her mother, Coco spent her early life in an orphanage, where she was taught how to use a needle and thread. From there, she became a cabaret singer, seamstress, hat maker, and, eventually, the world’s most famous fashion designer. This…
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Little People Big DREAMS – Maya Angelou
SALE !RM30.00RM28.50Meet Maya Angelou, the powerful speaker, writer, and civil rights activist. Maya Angelou spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. After a traumatic event at age eight, she stopped speaking for five years. However, Maya rediscovered her voice through wonderful books, and went on to become one of the…
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Little People Big DREAMS – Amelia Earhart
SALE !RM30.00RM28.50Meet Amelia Earhart, the American aviation pioneer. When Amelia was young, she liked to imagine she could stretch her wings and fly away like a bird. As a grown woman, she set a new female world record for flying up to 14,000 feet. She also flew across the Atlantic and…
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Little People Big DREAMS – Marie Curie
SALE !RM30.00RM28.50Meet Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize–winning scientist. When Marie was young, she was unable to go to college because she was a woman. But when she was older, her scientific work was respected around the world. Her discoveries of radium and polonium dramatically helped in the fight against cancer, and…
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Little People Big DREAMS – Audrey Hepburn
SALE !RM30.00RM28.50Meet Audrey Hepburn, the iconic Hollywood movie star. Audrey Hepburn grew up in Arnhem in the Netherlands. After living through the hardships of World War Two, she moved to study ballet in London. She went on to star in plays and films, eventually becoming one of the most iconic actresses…
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Little People Big DREAMS – Agatha Christie
SALE !RM30.00RM28.50Meet Agatha Christie, the most famous crime writer of all time. When Agatha was young, she read books every night, but always had her own idea for how they should end! As an adult, her crime novels, with their twists and turns and peculiar detectives, challenged the minds of millions…
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Little People Big DREAMS – Maria Montessori
SALE !RM30.00RM28.50Meet Maria Montessori, the pioneering teacher and researcher. Maria grew up in Italy at a time when girls didn’t receive an equal education to boys. But Maria’s mother was supportive of her dreams, and Maria went on to study medicine. She later became an early childhood expert—founding schools with her…
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Little People Big DREAMS – Vivienne Westwood
SALE !RM30.00RM28.50Meet Vivienne Westwood, the flame-haired fashion designer and impresario. When Vivienne was a young woman, she wasn’t sure how a working class girl from England could make a living in the art world. But after discovering her passion for design and jewelry making, she erupted onto the fashion scene with…
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Little People Big DREAMS – Rudolf Nureyev
SALE !RM30.00RM28.50Meet Rudolf Nureyev, one of the greatest male ballet dancers of all time. Rudolf fell in love with dance as a child. But he was not allowed to go to ballet school until he was 17. There, he had to make up for lost time and hone his skills to…
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Little People Big DREAMS – Jane Goodall
SALE !RM30.00RM28.50Meet Jane Goodall, the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees. When Jane was little, her father gave her a toy chimpanzee named Jubilee. This inspired her lifelong love of animals, and she went to study them in the wild as soon as she could. Jane lived with chimpanzees in their natural…
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Little People Big DREAMS – Stephen Hawking
SALE !RM30.00RM28.50Meet Stephen Hawking, the genius physicist and author. When Stephen Hawking was a little boy, he used to stare up at the stars and wonder about the universe. Although he was never top of the class, his curiosity took him to the best universities in England: Oxford and Cambridge. It…
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Little People Big DREAMS – L. M. Montgomery
SALE !RM30.00RM28.50Meet Lucy Maud Montgomery, the famous Canadian author of Anne of Green Gables. Born in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, Lucy Maud Montgomery lost her mother when she was very young. Left in the care of less-than-encouraging grandparents, she found comfort in reading, writing, and her imagination. When…
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Little People Big DREAMS – Emmeline Pankhurst
SALE !RM30.00RM28.50Meet Emmeline Pankhurst, an inspiring women’s rights activist who changed the world for future generations of women. As a child, Emmeline Pankhurst was inspired by books about heroes who fought for others. She dedicated her life to fighting for women’s voting rights and, with hard work and great bravery, led…
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Little People Big DREAMS – Rosa Parks
SALE !RM30.00RM28.50Meet Rosa Parks, the “Mother of the Freedom Movement.” Rosa Parks grew up in Alabama, where she learned to stand up for herself at an early age. Rosa went on to become a civil rights activist. In 1955, she refused to give up her seat to a white man on…
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Little People Big DREAMS – Ella Fitzgerald
SALE !RM30.00RM28.50Meet Ella Fitzgerald, First Lady of Song who once said, “It’s not where you come from, but where you’re going that counts.” Ella Fitzgerald grew up near Harlem, in New York, where she was surrounded by music and dance. After winning first prize in a talent competition at the Apollo…
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Little People Big DREAMS – Ada Lovelace
SALE !RM30.00RM28.50Meet Ada Lovelace, the British mathematician and daughter of poet Lord Byron. Follow the colorful life of Lord Byron’s daughter, from her early love of logic, to her plans for the world’s first computer program. As a child, Ada had a big imagination and a talent for mathematics. She grew…
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Little People Big DREAMS – Harriet Tubman
SALE !RM30.00RM28.50Meet Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railroad conductor who “never lost a single passenger.” Little Harriet was born into slavery on a plantation in Maryland. Though life was hard, Harriet persisted. She used all of her strength and bravery to escape slavery and journey north on the Underground Railroad. Harriet made…
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Little People Big DREAMS – Georgia O’Keeffe
SALE !RM30.00RM28.50Meet Georgia O’Keeffe, one of America’s greatest artists, a talented painter who broke boundaries. As a child, little Georgia viewed the world differently from other people. She roamed outdoors with her sketch book, while other girls played. As an adult, she painted all day. From New York City to New…
