Little Dreamers- Visionary Women Around The World

Little Dreamers- Visionary Women Around The World, by Vashti Harrison

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Summary:

This book features stories of women creators and thinkers from all around the world and explains how their different points of view and ways of seeing the world led to some of the greatest inventions and discoveries of our time. In this book, you will meet visionary women from various fields. From scientists like Marie Curie to environmental activists like Wangari Maathai, this book will exhibit some of the world’s most fascinating female visionaries with whom you may or may not be familiar. The most exciting revelation of this book? Each of their revolutionary contributions all has the same origin: Each woman was a dreamer. 

Inside of Little Dreamers- Visionary Women Around The World, Marie Curie page

Inside of Little Dreamers- Visionary Women Around The World, Asima Chatterjee page

Plus points:

• The book is designed to feature each woman’s history and vision and an accompanying illustration. The book is quite text-heavy, so let your child choose 1-2 women to read about per day and finish when they are tired. As a part of persistency training, guide them to finish a spread once they to the page.  Begin with the illustration if that is what they seem to be drawn to first.  

• If your child is not familiar with the world geography yet, it may be helpful to point out where each woman came from on the map.

• The introduction states the purpose of this book quite well. Read it together before jumping in to give them guidelines to think about while they read.

Discussion points with your child:

The introduction of the book states: “The women in this book looked at things differently. They saw things that no one else did. They asked questions no one else was asking. And they chose to do something about it.” “Through their curiosity and creative thinking, these ordinary women accomplished extraordinary things. Thanks to their persistence and willingness to make mistakes, they had a lasting impact on their fields of study, and some of them even changed the world.”

This is the attitude and mindset we want to encourage our children to hold throughout their lives.  When you are reading the book with your child,  allow them to read it by themselves, and have a short discussion prompted by these questions:

• What do you think interested her? What do you think made her curious?

• What was so different about her compared to others who lived in the same era?

• What were some of the challenges she faced or do you think she faced?

• What was her attitude regarding problem-solving?

In general, we encourage you to have discussions with your child on these topics frequently:

• Do you have anything that interests you these days?

• What do you think are your strengths and talents?

• If you could change something about the world, what would it be?

• How might you start to create this change in a small way? In a big way? 

• What is your dream for this problem?

Inside of Little Dreamers - Visionary Women Around The World, Edith Head page