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Re: Ask HN: Looking for kids books about famous people

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Maybe won’t tick all your boxes, but the ‘Little People, Big Dreams’ books are age-appropriate and our nearly eight year-old is delighting in building a collection of them. See https://littlepeoplebigdreams.com

We had the books on black men and black women in history by the same author. Each biography is only a page or two, but I found them interesting.

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I never understood the desire to idolize famous people. Almost always the achievement was done by a group where the famous person took the credit and marginalized the other contributors. We teach our kids that somehow a single person did these amazing things when in truth they were the lead or figurehead of a larger movement organization or group.

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Maybe won’t tick all your boxes, but the ‘Little People, Big Dreams’ books are age-appropriate and our nearly eight year-old is delighting in building a collection of them. See https://littlepeoplebigdreams.com

Was about to mention this.

Its remarkable how kids (4 yo) relate to some facts in these books (like discoveries, slogans, values) and then recall the page/book when they hear a word two in totally unrelated conversations.

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#15

Maybe won’t tick all your boxes, but the ‘Little People, Big Dreams’ books are age-appropriate and our nearly eight year-old is delighting in building a collection of them. See https://littlepeoplebigdreams.com

I opened this thread to recommend the same book series! They were translated to pt-br and my daughters love them.

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My kids are in a similar spot and I can’t recommend teaching them the power of asking a (real) librarian at a (real) library enough, if that’s something that’s possible for you. Those folks are special and my kids love wandering through the children’s non-fiction a few times a week.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for kids books about famous people

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Maybe won’t tick all your boxes, but the ‘Little People, Big Dreams’ books are age-appropriate and our nearly eight year-old is delighting in building a collection of them. See https://littlepeoplebigdreams.com

Thank you, these look super fun and sounds about what I am looking for!

Re: Ask HN: Looking for kids books about famous people

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I never understood the desire to idolize famous people. Almost always the achievement was done by a group where the famous person took the credit and marginalized the other contributors. We teach our kids that somehow a single person did these amazing things when in truth they were the lead or figurehead of a larger movement organization or group.

It's not that I idolize a particular person. It's more that I use them as a vehicle to tell a story, build curiosity, and teach about various things. For example, the story of Paganini and how he had a strange/rare disease that made his fingers extremely flexible. Or Einsteins solar eclipse experiment and how no one believed him but he persevered, etc. Or how Oppenheimer assembled an incredible team and [some of] the challenges they had to overcome in the Manhattan project.

I guess I am more looking for interesting story telling based on real life event

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