![]() ![]() Three months ago my boyfriend and I moved to a beautiful old 19th-century house near the beach in Badalona, a nearby town. “I used to live in a tiny apartment in El Raval, in downtown Barcelona. Just recently, the prolific author showed us around her simple yet inspiring workspace-a sunny studio inside a 200-year-old house just outside of Barcelona-and told about us her creative process and the 18 (!) new books she currently has in the works. This month, she added some boys to the club: Stories about little Stephen Hawking and tiny Muhammad Ali were released in early February, with Mahatma Gandhi and Rudolf Nureyev (the first male ballet dancer to ever perform in tights) to roll out later this spring and summer. A fashion-obsessed child named Coco Chanel was the first subject in her “Little People, BIG DREAMS” series (which debuted in 2014), and she has since written the biographies of nearly 30 girls, from Anne Frank to Frida Kahlo to Amelia Earhart to Josephine Baker and so forth. ![]() ![]() When Isabel Sanchez Vegara’s twin nieces were born, she had a hard time finding children’s books about brilliant, brave little girls. ![]()
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