{"id":1130,"date":"2016-03-05T15:32:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T15:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2016-03-06T10:08:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T10:08:02","slug":"little-people-big-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/03\/05\/little-people-big-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Little People, Big Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 328px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"coco Chanel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Little-People-Big-Dreams-Chanel\/dp\/1847807712\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1457191349&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Little+People+Big+Dreams\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cocochanel.jpg?resize=328%2C396\" alt=\"Coco Chanel cover image...\" width=\"328\" height=\"396\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buy this from Amazon.co.uk here...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>This is a new series of books from <a title=\"Frances Lincoln Children's Books\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartoknows.com\/brand\/1028\/Frances-Lincoln\/\">Frances Lincoln Children's Books<\/a>, which tell people's stories, and how they became famous. Starting off as children, finding a dream and following it through to a successful career.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first book follows <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coco_Chanel\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Coco Chanel<\/em><\/a>, from her early life in an orphanage, where she is a genius with needle and thread, to her time as a cabaret singer, hat maker and international fashion designer.The book is written by Ms <em>Isabel Sanchez Vegara<\/em> and with beautifully stylised illustrations by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ana-albero.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ana Albero<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The second book is about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frida_Kahlo\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Frida Kahlo<\/em><\/a>, she wanted to study medicine but had a bad childhood accident. But despite a terrible time her career culminated in a solo exhibition in America.<\/p>\n<p>These are inspirational biographies perfect for encouraging children to follow their dreams. They are excellently published books in hardback and encourage you to open them from the start. I was in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/explore.bl.uk\/primo_library\/libweb\/action\/search.do?dscnt=1&amp;dstmp=1457258406578&amp;vid=BLVU1&amp;fromLogin=true\" target=\"_blank\">The British Library<\/a><\/em> recently and noticed that many people just had to peep inside.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 334px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a title=\"Frid Kahlo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Little-People-Big-Dreams-Frida\/dp\/1847807704\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1457191349&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=Little+People+Big+Dreams\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/fridakahlo.jpg?resize=334%2C396\" alt=\"Frida Kahlo cover image...\" width=\"334\" height=\"396\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buy this book from Amazon.co.uk...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In each book there is a fact section and a timeline.<\/p>\n<p>Future books will include <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maya_Angelou\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Maya Angelou<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amelia_Earhart\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Amelia Earhart<\/em><\/a>, can't wait for that one!<\/p>\n<p><em>We love these books and recommend for children from 6 years to 9 years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sue Martin<\/p>\n<p>Dolphin Booksellers and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksgowalkabout.com\" target=\"_blank\">Books Go Walkabout<\/a><\/p>\n<br>\r\nDolphinbooksellers.co.uk is part of <a\r\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.smithmartinpartnership.com\" target=\"_blank\">SmithMartin\r\nLLP<\/a><br>\r\n<br>\r\nA retail resource for the best children's books, entry point into our\r\nchildren's and community library procurement and supply service. Offering a miscellany of news and featured authors for all our readers,\r\nwhatever their age.<\/small><br><br><br>\r\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a new series of books from Frances Lincoln Children's Books, which tell people's stories, and how they became famous. Starting off as children, finding a dream and following it through to a successful career. The first book follows Coco Chanel, from her early life in an orphanage, where she is a genius with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/03\/05\/little-people-big-dreams\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Little People, Big Dreams\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<br>\r\nDolphinbooksellers.co.uk is part of <a\r\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.smithmartinpartnership.com\" target=\"_blank\">SmithMartin\r\nLLP<\/a><br>\r\n<br>\r\nA retail resource for the best children's books, entry point into our\r\nchildren's and community library procurement and supply service. Offering a miscellany of news and featured authors for all our readers,\r\nwhatever their age.<\/small><br><br><br>\r\n<\/body>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[220,15,5,7,6,4],"tags":[345,343,342,340,94,501,10,341,344,346],"class_list":{"0":"post-1130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books-go-walkabout-2","7":"category-dolphinbooksellers","8":"category-featured-authors","9":"category-featured-childrens-book","10":"category-featured-illustrators","11":"category-new-titles","12":"tag-amelia-earhart","13":"tag-ana-albero","14":"tag-art","15":"tag-british-library","16":"tag-childrens-book-illustrations","17":"tag-dolphinbooksellers","18":"tag-frances-lincoln","19":"tag-frida-kahlo","20":"tag-isabel-sanchez-vegara","21":"tag-maya-angelou","22":"h-entry","23":"hentry","24":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqnT3-ie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}