Little People, Big Dreams: Maya Angelou - Lisbeth Kaiser

This little biography of Maya Angelou looks at her early traumatic childhood to her time as singer, actress, civil rights campaigner and, eventually, one of America's most beloved writers and the author of her wonderful autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. Inspiring stuff for girls and boys alike.

The Little People, Big Dreams books series portrays the inspiring lives of artists, designers, activists and scientists in a super-accessible way with sweet illustrations and by focusing on when they started out as children with a dream.