Little People, Big Dreams:
Maya Angelou
2017 Amelia Bloomer List
BEST FEMINIST BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
"Stirring encouragement for all
'little people' with 'big dreams.'"
-Kirkus
In this international bestseller from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of 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 world's most beloved writers and speakers. This moving book was the recognized on the ALA’s 2017 Amelia Bloomer Book List of the best feminist literature for young people, and features extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical photos and a detailed profile of Maya Angelou's life.
Little People, BIG DREAMS is a best-selling series of books and educational games that explore 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 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 versions present expanded stories for beginning readers. Boxed gift sets allow you to collect a selection of the books by theme. Paper dolls, learning cards, matching games, and other fun learning tools provide even more ways to make the lives of these role models accessible to children.
KIRKUS REVIEW
“There’s nothing I can’t be,” young Maya thinks, and then shows, in this profile for newly independent readers, imported from Spain.
The inspirational message is conveyed through a fine skein of biographical details. It begins with her birth in St. Louis and the prejudice she experienced growing up in a small Arkansas town and closes with her reading of a poem “about her favorite thing: hope” at Bill Clinton’s presidential inauguration.
Stirring encouragement for all “little people” with “big dreams.”
Read the full review on Kirkus.
BLOG POST
Read more about Maya Angelou's extraordinary life and how Lisbeth approached writing about her for very young children. In her post on the Quarto Kids blog, Lisbeth discusses her process for introducing an incredible role model to this age group.
Read the blog post on Quarto Kids.