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Little People, BIG DREAMS: Amelia Earhart
€12.00Author: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara Illustrated by: Mariadiamantes Meet 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 the Pacific oceans, and…
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Little People, BIG DREAMS: Bruce Lee
€12.00Author: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara Illustrated by: Miguel Bustos Meet Bruce Lee, the martial artist and Hollywood film star. Born in San Francisco but raised in Hong Kong, Bruce Lee was the child star of Hong Kong cinema. But, after getting into trouble as a teenager, his father sent him to live in America. Starring roles were hard to come by for…
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Little People, BIG DREAMS: Charles Dickens
€12.00Author: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara Illustrated by: Isobel Ross Meet Charles Dickens, the influential author. When Charles was a boy he made up his own adventures. But after a Dickensian twist of fate saw his father go to prison for debt, Charles ended up working in a factory with other children. He worked his way out, trying his hand in a law…
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Little People, BIG DREAMS: Elvis Presley
€12.00Author: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara Illustrated by: Ana Albero Meet Elvis, the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Elvis was born into poverty in North Mississippi, a place where opportunities were a rare thing to see. Still, he felt that someday, somehow, something amazing would happen. When he sang in a school talent show, he realised that singing was all he wanted to do with his…
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Little People, BIG DREAMS: Greta Thunberg
€12.00Author: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara Illustrated by: Anke Weckmann Meet Greta Thunberg, the environmental activist. When young Greta learned of the climate crisis, she stopped talking. She couldn’t understand why people in power were not doing anything to save our Earth. One day she started protesting outside the Swedish Parliament, creating the “School Strike for Climate.” Soon, lots more young people joined…
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Little People, BIG DREAMS: Jane Goodal
€12.00Author: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara Illustrated by: Beatrice Cerocchi Meet 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 habitat and became…
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Little People, BIG DREAMS: Marie Curie
€12.00Meet 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 she went on to win the Nobel Prize for Physics! This…
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Little People, BIG DREAMS: Michael Jordan
€12.00Author: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara Illustrated by: Lo Harris Meet Michael Jordan, one of the greatest all-time basketball players. Little Michael wanted to be the first at everything – especially if that meant beating his older brother. One day, he came home crying… he’d been rejected from the basketball team at school. With his mom’s message of “go out and earn it”…
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Little People, BIG DREAMS: Neil Armstrong
€12.00Author: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara Illustrated by: Christophe Jacques Meet Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon. Little Neil’s dreams took flight when he rode on his first airplane as a child. After studying aeronautical engineering and time spent in the navy, he became a pilot. From there, he was selected to take a trip to where no human…
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Little People, BIG DREAMS: Nelson Mandela
€12.00Author: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara Illustrated by: Alison Hawkins Meet Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first Black president and his fight for equality. Little Nelson’s given name was Rolihlahla, which means ‘troublemaker’ in Xhosa, his native language. But his rebellious nature would lead him to become one of the world’s most inspirational civil right’s leaders and anti-apartheid revolutionaries. Despite the many years of…
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Little People, BIG DREAMS: Nicola Tesla
€12.00Author: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara Illustrated by: Alexander Mostov Meet Nikola Tesla, the scientist and inventor whose groundbreaking inventions we continue to use today. Since he was a young boy growing up in the Austrian Empire, Nikola was fascinated by science and numbers. His teachers knew he had a brilliant mind, but Nikola’s irregular routines and fondness for playing cards meant that he…
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Little People, BIG DREAMS: Pablo Picasso
€12.00Author: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara Illustrated by: Teresa Bellon Meet Pablo Picasso, one of the world’s greatest artists in the 20th century. Little Pablo grew up in an artistic household and after drawing his first painting at nine years old. His dad was an art teacher and helped grow his son’s talent, teaching him to use oil paints. He moved first to Barcelona and then to…
Books in English
My first Amelia Earhart board book