"A wonderfully diverse and surprising collection of real-life stories that are not just about the usual household names."
Each of the 15 subjects selected for this collection gets a lively, well-designed, double-paged spread with bite sized and accessible chunks of information about the life and career of each extraordinary individual. These range from the familiar – David Attenborough, Michelle Obama, Nelson Mandela, Mo Farrer etc- to those that were completely new to me and, I am sure, to most young readers!
These include Britain’s first female spy- Krystyna Skabarek; Aeham Ahmad, the pianist of Yarmouk and Keiko Fukuda Sensei, who became the only woman to be awarded the 10th Dan in Judo at the age of 98! The illustrations by Annabel Tempest are very effective in capturing both time and place as well as the character and emotions of the individual.
Written by a graduate of the Penguin Random House WriteNow scheme, which endeavours to ensure that books and authors better reflect the society we live in, this is a rich resource for KS1 libraries and classrooms. It will support the study of lives of significant individuals in the past and show good examples of resilience and positive role models.
It is a book which will be dipped into and read with pleasure but lack of contents or index means that it is less useful as a research tool. But this is an author to watch: one whose evident passion for writing information texts which are set to ignite curiosity in young readers shines through.
Could you be EXTRAORDINARY? This book will inspire you with the real-life stories of extraordinary people, showcasing a total variety of personalities and talents. Whoever you are, and whoever you want to be, read about the extraordinary stories of these 15 people, and decide how YOU will be extraordinary too!
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Could you be EXTRAORDINARY? This book will inspire you with the real-life stories of extraordinary people, showcasing a total variety of personalities and talents.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed How To Be Extraordinary and determined it is suitable for children aged 5-8 years old
How To Be Extraordinary features in the following genres: Books to Motivate Reluctant Readers age 5+, Recommendations, Featured Books for 7+ readers, People / Places, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, True Stories, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Featured Books for 5+ readers
Paperback. £7.19, down from the £7.99 cover price. In Stock.
How To Be Extraordinary was written by Rashmi Sirdeshpande and published by Puffin an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
How To Be Extraordinary has 32 pages
£7.19, reduced from £7.99. In Stock.
