True stories of the world's greats, told for little readers.
Picture-book biographies for ages 3 to 7. Every book ends with six lessons a child can carry.
The Festival of Lights
In a busy town in India, a little girl named Meera and her brother Kabir can hardly wait for Diwali.
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At school, a boy named Bhim had to sit alone on a sack, and he had to wait for someone else to give him a drink of water.
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A little girl named Manu grew up by the river Ganga, learning alongside the boys and riding fast horses.
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In the colourful city of Hyderabad, a little girl named Sarojini was stuck on a maths sum, and a whole poem came to her instead.
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Long ago in India, a mighty emperor named Ashoka won a great war, and then felt very, very sad.
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In a town by the sea in South India, a small boy named Raman loved to read and learn.
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In the old temple city of Madurai, a little girl named Subbulakshmi sang along with her mother's veena.
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A boy named Milkha ran to school every day with no shoes on, across the hot sand of Punjab.
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Long ago, a kind prince named Rama left his golden city to keep his father's promise.
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Long ago, a little boy named Krishna stole butter, played his flute for the cows and lifted a whole hill to keep his village dry.
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On a little island in South India, a boy named Abdul delivered newspapers and watched the seabirds fly.
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In a seaside town in India, a shy little boy named Mohandas learned to be kind and to tell the truth.
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Diwali
The story of Prince Rama coming home to Ayodhya, and why we light rows of lamps.
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Krishna and Satyabhama chase away the dark, and South India wakes before the sun on Deepavali.
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Meera and her family clean, cook, share sweets and light up their whole street.
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Rani Lakshmibai
As a girl she rode and learned alongside the boys. As a queen she would not give up Jhansi.
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A poet who became the first Indian woman to lead the Congress, and India's first woman governor.
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She studied how to build aeroplanes when few girls did, and became the first woman born in India to go to space.
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In 1848, when most girls in India were kept away from books, she stood at the front of a classroom full of them.
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The first musician ever given the Bharat Ratna, and she gave the money from her concerts away.
Digital Download · $5.99The Festival of Lights
In a busy town in India, a little girl named Meera and her brother Kabir can hardly wait for Diwali.
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Srinivasa Ramanujan
A harbour clerk with no degree, whose letter full of new ideas amazed a professor at Cambridge.
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He asked why the sea is blue, and the answer led to Asia's first Nobel Prize in science.
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He was not chosen to be a pilot, so he became the scientist who led the rocket that carried India's satellite into space.
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An aeroplane engineer who trained for years at NASA and flew on the space shuttle twice.
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Mahatma Gandhi
He showed that a whole country could stand up to unfair rule without fighting, starting with a handful of salt.
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He fought for fairness inside India too, and led the writing of free India's Constitution.
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In 1857 she would not hand Jhansi to the East India Company, and she is still a hero of India's fight for freedom.
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She travelled across India giving speeches for freedom, and went to prison for the salt protest.
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What children take away
Every Atlas Of Greats book ends with six lessons from the story, each beside the moment it comes from: small, true ideas a child can carry. Here are a few from across the series.
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Written by Aparna Rajesh R
