History Makers Revolutionaries

Ten people who set out to overturn the order of their day stand at the centre of this illustrated history for young readers. They come from different centuries and different corners of the world: Samuel Adams stirring colonial Boston against British rule, Simón Bolívar fighting to free South America from Spain, and Mao Zedong leading revolution in China among them.

Set side by side, their stories give children a sense of how and why ordinary politics sometimes breaks open into upheaval. A good choice for a curious young reader beginning to ask how the world came to look the way it does.