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From the bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series,
American Dreamers Treasury presents the full stories of 40 dreamers, rewritten for an older audience.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1800–1920
Harriet Tubman
Harry Houdini
Helen Keller
Georgia O’Keeffe
Amelia Earhart
Josephine Baker
Rosa Parks
Jesse Owens
Hedy Lamarr
Ella Fitzgerald
1920–1940
Iris Apfel
Marilyn Monroe
Maya Angelou
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Neil Armstrong
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Elvis Presley
Gloria Steinem
Wilma Rudolph
Bruce Lee
1941–1959
Bob Dylan
Muhammad Ali
Aretha Franklin
Billie Jean King
Wilma Mankiller
Dolly Parton
Stevie Wonder
Steve Jobs
Mae Jemison
Prince
1960–2000
RuPaul
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Michael Jordan
Michelle Obama
Kamala Harris
Dwayne Johnson
Laverne Cox
Mindy Kaling
Megan Rapinoe
Amanda Gorman
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Über den Autor / die Autorin
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.
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From the bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, American Dreamers Treasury presents the full stories of 40 dreamers, rewritten for an older audience.
