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Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History Kindle Edition

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Little Leaders

Meet the Little Leaders!

Shirley

Mae

Tessa

Rosa

Shirley Bassey

From a young age, Shirley's big voice was unmistakable.

Born in Cardiff, she was the youngest of seven children in a blended mixed-race family.

Racial discrimination and poverty were a constant issue, and Shirley had to leave school at 16 to work in a factory.

But she kept singing in pubs and clubs, and was soon talent spotted, and was propelled to stardom.

She sang the title tracks to three James Bond films, and became famous all over the world for her amazing voice and glamorous style.

Dr Mae Jemison

When she was a child, Mae loved to read about science and astronomy.

She really wanted to become a scientist, and studied chemical engineering and African American studies at university.

She was inspired by Dr Martin Luther King to help people, and became a doctor, and travelled all over the world.

She always wanted to go to space, and so applied to work at NASA, and became the first black woman to join the astronaut training programme.

A few years later, she flew into space! The first African American woman to do so.

Tessa Sanderson

When Tessa was just nine years old, she moved from Jamaica to the UK, settling in Wolverhampton.

She loved sport, and showed a lot of promise in the javelin and heptathlon events.

Breaking lots of records, she earned a place on the Commonwealth Games, and then the Olympics.

In 1984 she won gold for Great Britain in the Olympics in Los Angeles, the first British woman to win gold in the heptathlon and the first British woman to win any Olympic gold.

Rosa Parks

Rosa hated the rules of segregation in her home of Montgomery, Alabama.

One of the rules affected where she could sit on the bus. The front of the bus was reserved for white people, and the back was for black people.

The middle was an overflow, but if one white person wanted to sit in the middle, all black people had to leave and stand at the back.

One day, Rosa refused to move and was arrested. It sparked a public outcry, and a boycott of the public transport system.

A year later, the buses became integrated!

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2021 Connecticut Nutmeg List

"Vashti Harrison's adorable, idiosyncratic drawings...are poster-worthy."
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From the Back Cover

Meet the little leaders. They're brave. They're bold. They changed the world.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Did you know the treatment for leprosy was developed by a young scientist called Alice Ball?
And Josephine Baker- world famous cabaret singer and dancer- was also a spy for the French résistance?

Featuring 40 trailblazing black women in the world's history, this book educates and inspires as it relates true stories of women who broke boundaries and exceeded all expectations.

Debut author/illustrator Vashti Harrison pairs captivating text with stunning illustrations as she tells the stories of both iconic and lesser-known female figures of black history, including:

Nurse Mary Seacole
Politician Diane Abbott
Mathematician Katherine Johnson
Singer Shirley Bassey

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B079Z9YKYP
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Puffin (1 Mar. 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 34137 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
  • Customer reviews:
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Vashti Harrison is the New York Times bestselling creator of Big, which was awarded the 2024 Caldecott Medal, a Coretta Scott King Book Award Author Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor, in addition to being a National Book Award finalist. Vashti is also the #1 New York Times bestselling creator of Little Leaders, Little Dreamers, and Little Legends, and the illustrator of Lupita Nyong’o’s Sulwe (for which she received a Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor), Matthew A. Cherry’s Hair Love, Andrea Beaty's I Love You Like Yellow, and Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic’s Hello, Star, among others. A two-time recipient of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Children, Vashti lives in Brooklyn, New York, and invites you to visit her online at vashtiharrison dot com.

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So I got this for my just 4 year old boy who does like a book before bed. I've been on a quest to find books that aren't entirely full of white heterosexual middle class imagery. This had great reviews and suggested age was about 4 up.

Its a lovely book and actually I personally found it quite interesting, and informative. The illustrations are just lovely.

It is though a bit wordy for your average 4 year old reader. (Non reader) we have read the athlete ones as that's what he has chosen, and he liked those. He's a little young to understand some of the more complex words , but it's certainly one that will be referred back to over the next few years. I'll definitely be reading to my daughter when she's older too.

It makes a refreshing change to see some pages filled with strong powerful determined achieving Women.

Nice book well worth its money but id say 6 year old and upwards.
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