Susan Cook has assembled the stories of twenty
remarkable men and women from around the world
including: John Harrison, Eli Whitney,
Sequoyah, Simon Bolivar, Benito Juarez,
Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Clara Barton,
Marie Curie, Janusz Korczak, Hellen Keller.
Mao Zedong, Nien Cheng, Jomo Jenyatta,
Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Cesar Chavez, and Wangari Maathai.
Each chapter has one or more illustrations
by students from the San Francisco Waldorf School