Summary
The series Little People, BIG DREAMS is a non-fiction biography picture book series. This book focuses on the life of Malala Yousafzai, an activist for giving girls an education just like boys. By incorporating beautiful, detailed illustrations, this book goes through Malala’s life from a child to an adult when she recovered from an accident and devotes her life to creating an equal opportunity for girls education.
Theme(s):
overcoming adversity, society, fairness
Personal Response
This was a fantastic biography on Malala Yousafzai. Before reading this book, I was not aware of the childhood Malala lived and everything she has done thus far for standing up for girls’ education. I enjoyed the facts that are incorporated on the back of the book as well as the biographical timeline that includes historical pictures of Malala’s life.
Teaching Ideas
A older elementary literacy activity that could be tied into this book after reading it as a class would be to conduct research on what girls’ education was like when Malala was growing up, then compare it to now. Students could be split into 2 groups- one on girls education now and one on girl’s education then. Each group will create a presentation on what new information they learned and compare the two educations.
Recommended Reading Level
Birth-PreK, Grade 01, Grade 02, Grade 03, Grade 04
