Stories for Kids Who Dare to Be Different: True Tales of Amazing People Who Stood Up and Stood Out (The Dare to Be Different Series)

Bought this for my daughter’s 10th birthday and by the next day she had read every single story! They are truly inspirational and really impactful! Would recommend to anyone looking for a little life motivation!

Relevant and interesting.

Great book for older middle schoolers. Definitely preview before reading some stories to younger kids. I love the art work.

The kids and I really enjoyed it. Amazing stories OF kids, FOR kids! Very enjoyable!

This is a great book, beautifully illustrated by the awesome Quinton Winter, full of inspiring stories about men and women of all ages who have had a dream and gone on to achieve it. I really enjoyed, and am looking forward to sharing more of it with my nieces, who found the part they read and the pictures funny. There are just two points I'd make - firstly, not all the stories in here are suitable for younger children, so if you're planning to read with them, do have a look through first and make sure you know which are suitable for your child and which aren't. Also, the font size can't be changed in this book (ebook!), so make sure you read in portrait more to get the largest size possible, or buy the physical book for a controlled size. Otherwise, a brilliant book that I highly recommend, even to adults - you learn lots in really short bites!

Fun and informative stories!

There is a lot of valuable information in this book, but I feel it needs a bit of a disclaimer. The first 3 stories I read were about children and people living through horribly violent or oppressive or just generally terrible conditions and scenarios. I was surprised to see the first story illustration depicting a kid with an AK-47. I fully realize that the violence endured by these individuals is an integral part of the story, but I don’t find it appropriate for my younger children. If you are ready to have some raw truth chats with your children about why certain things happen, then this book is a great gateway. I will save it until my kids are a bit older. The attached photo is the first story in the book.

I bought this as a kindle book for my children on their kindle device. While the content seems to be great, I don't recommend purchasing the electronic version. The font size cannot be increased, it is more like a scanned page, PDF style, with a black font on a grey background. This sadly means that it's a book we won't be reading (and I wish I had put the money towards the paper version instead).

My 10 year old loved it. Inspiring read. Highly recommend. What I liked is the format. Easy for both early and advanced readers. Fonts, format and illustration all make it easy for young readers. As parent I too was inspired to pick it and read it.

I love images as much as the next person, but when this was delivered to my kindle I was absolutely confused. They've kept the format the same as the book, meaning the pages are darkened behind the text, some pages are barely distinguishable, the text is in an image block, so you have to use gestures to zoom in on parts, move it to read the next section etc, and it's darn near impossible. The stories are lovely, but reading tiny text, pausing to move the page, with the backlight on bright does not help to send my little one off to sleep. I'm very disappointed with the Kindle format of this book.

Our daughter already owns and read Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls (One & Two) and Stories For Boys Who Dare To Be Different, and was very much looking forward to this next book in the series. This hard cover book provides the reader with short stories (75 in total) about young people that followed their own path and dared to be different. The wide range of inspirational and interesting individuals includes athletes, inventors, scientists, artists, and philanthropists from all over the world. It gives you a varied, well-presented collection of mini-biographies. The main message of this book is that you don’t have to follow what society prescribes and simply go over down trodden paths - its pays off to be different. All the pages are very colourful, even though I’m not a big fan of the art style to which a page is dedicated per individual. The narratives are quite brief and to the point, which is a benefit for young readers. Though it only provides a limited amount of information per child. Our daughter says these book make reading and learning very enjoyable.

Great book

A book I always like to gift kids. My 7 year old read it alone and highly recommend by both of us