Questions for LITTLE DREAMERS: Visionary Women Around the World LITTLE DREAMERS: Visionary Women Around the World written and illustrated by Vashti Harrison will engage readers 8-12 years of age and encourage them to read further and allow their imaginations to fly wider (Little, Brown and Company, 2018). All of the women have their eyes closed as if they are still dreaming. The picture of Calypso Rose, the calypso singer from Tobago, is dressed in fancy clothes holding a microphone. For instance, sculptor and architect Maya Lin is shown standing in front of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C which she designed. The 36 biographies are lively and concise and accompanied by charming illustrations that visually reveal who the women are and what they were busy thinking about, discovering, creating and inventing. And, Chinese microbiologist Flossie Wong-Staal and her team at the National Cancer Institute in the United States discovered that HIV was the cause of AIDS. She wrote down over 3,000 folk songs so they could be enjoyed by generations to come. Coast Guard.Įthnomusicologist Violeta Parra from Chile went into the countryside in search of folk music. American costume designer and winner of eight Academy Awards, Edith Head, created stunning apparel for movie stars as well as for the women in the U.S. The women featured are from all career areas and includes chemists, illustrators, designers, writers, physicists, inventors and computer programmers.Īsima Chatterjee, an organic chemist from India, developed an anti-epilepsy drug from a tiny plant by the name of the dwarf water clover. LITTLE DREAMERS: Visionary Women Around the World written by Vashti Harrison is an interesting look at women and their contributions worldwide.

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