A fun and brief biography of Josephine Baker, highlighting her life from dancer in St. Louis to movie star to spy in the French Resistance! Baker's uplifting story of taking her limited opportunities and making them absolutely limitless is both inspiring and entertaining!
Another excellent illustrated biography for young readers highlighting a strong female role model in the Little People Big Dreams series!
Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for providing an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Kudos to Quarto publishers and the author for another informative, appealing and enjoyable entry in the Little People, Big Dreams series. This time it is the story of Josephine Baker, a dancer and entertainer, who moved far from her segregated hometown to find renown in Paris and beyond. I discovered things that I did not know about Ms. Baker in this short book. While I knew about her performances and the large family that she created through adoption, I just now learned that she helped the French Resistance during WWII and was active in the Civil Rights movement.
This book will appeal to both children with dreams and the adults who encourage them. As always, the illustrations add to the appeal of the book.

Thanks NetGalley and the publisher for publishing these inspiring stories.

This was an adorable children's book about an amazing woman, Josephine Baker. This book is a wonderful addition to this equally wonderful children's book series. The book will be a great addition to any library, I personally cannot wait for it to be published so that I can add it to my nieces' homeschool library. This book will make a great jumping off point for educators and parents alike when doing projects on movies and civil rights activists. Josephine Baker was simply incredible, she never let her skin color stop her in a time when segregation was still rampant. She is simply inspirational.

Book was received as an ARC.

I really love this series of books as it depicts the lives of interesting women with adorable drawings attached. I find Josephine Baker fascinating and adored this book! It felt bits were missed from her life story and this made elements of it feel patchy but it still gave a good overview of her life for younger readers.

The <em>Little People, Big Dreams</em> series is a delightful way to introduce kids to people that they might not otherwise know about.

Josephine was an amazing woman, who left her native land, America, which was not letting her do what she wanted because she was Black, to go to France, where no one gave a damn that she was black, and she was able to make movies, go where she liked, and become a spy in World War II.

A truly remarkable woman, told in a very simple, accessible style.

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Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

This is a charmer of a book for young children, told by Vegara, and illustrated in charming simplistic color by Sorlet, it tells the spectacular story of Freda Josephine McDonald, a dirt poor girl from St Louis Missouri, who became known to the world as Josephine Baker, dancer, actor, and World War Two hero, who spoke out against racism and adopted a rainbow family of children to put her actions where her mouth was.

This book is part of a series (Little People, Big Dreams) aimed at young children, and relating the lives of outstanding people including:

Maya Angelou
Jane Austen
Agatha Christie
Marie Curie
Amelia Earhart
Ella Fitzgerald
Anne Frank
Jane Goodall
Audrey Hepburn
Frida Kahlo
Ada Lovelace
Georgia O’Keefe
Emmeline Pankhurst
Rosa Parks
Harriet Tubman
The list seems sadly more biased towards the arts than ever it is towards the sciences or engineering, or military or other public service, for that matter, but that really just reflects what a disproportionate influence celebrities have upon in modern society, doesn't it?

However, this book in particular tells a stirring story worth telling, and worth children learning, and I recommend it highly.

I loved this book. Such a great summary of Josephine Baker's amazing, extraordinary life. She was definitely one of the most interesting figures in WW2. The illustration style is simple but elegant. Bakers life is told in a hasty way but as this is a children's book it's quite normal. Highly recommended. Can't wait to read this with my son.

This series is aimed at teaching children about people who had amazing dreams and how they accomplished those dreams. I like this series because it has such a wide variety of individuals that they are focused on. This allows children to learn about people that they may have never heard of.

I liked this book because of the amount of information in provided about Josephine Baker and the times that she lived in while keeping the book short and to the point.. It discusses important issues such as segregation and World War II. I like that it included information that did not just focus on Josephine Bakers dancing abilities, which is what I am familiar with. It included information about her being a spy, adopting children, having a variety of pets and marching. I think these little facts will hold the interest of students and encourage them to pick up more biographies.

I did not know anything about Josephine Baker before reading this book. Then Little People, Big Dreams brought me her. This book told me many things about her. She was a lady who has done many amazing things.

I think this is a great book to introduce to children about famous people. I wish I had such book when I was child.

Josephine Baker had great content and was age appropriate for children. I really loved that at the end there are actual photos and other biographical information as well.

I adore the Little People, Big Dreams series, and, since looking into the titles in this series, Josephine Baker is one that I really wanted to learn more about and read! So, I was very excited to see it go up on NetGalley and just had to read it straight away.

So far, this has been one of my favourite books in the series; the illustrations compliment the story beautifully and are simplistic without being boring. It was fascinating to learn about a brave and inspirational woman who I hadn't heard of before.

This book is definitely aimed at older children; it covers some of the trickier periods of history to explain to young people, but, nevertheless, it is an important one for learning about race, the Second World War and following your dreams in the face of adversity.

This lovely children's biography of Josephine Baker is bright, honest, cheerful, optimistic, and perfect for young readers. The book starts with her birth in St Louis, United States, and continues through her work on stage and screen, and in the French Resistance.

Dates are not included, and this is not an in-depth biography, but it is a great introduction for children to an amazing personality.