Author: 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…

Author: 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…

Author: 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…

Author: 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…