Little Mavericks

A young man is fired from a newspaper for "having no imagination." Meet Walt Disney: the boy who delivered papers in the freezing dark and grew up to gamble everything on a mouse, on sound, and on the first full-length cartoon the world had ever seen. The big idea: imagination, plus the courage to keep going, can outlast you for a hundred years. A true story for curious kids, ages 6 and up. Part of Little Mavericks.

A girl your age, alone on a storm-lashed cliff with a small hammer, starts digging a monster out of the rock. Meet Mary Anning: a poor girl in seaside England who taught herself to read the cliffs, pulled giant sea-dragons out of the stone, and helped prove there was a whole lost ancient world. The big idea: you do not have to be rich, or grown up, or anybody's favorite to discover something true. You just have to look harder than everyone else. A true story for curious kids, ages 6 and up. Part of Little Mavericks.

It's the middle of the night, and a young man has just finished building his very first car, only to find it's too big to fit through the door of his workshop. Meet Henry Ford, a farm boy obsessed with machines who didn't invent the car but figured out how to build one that almost everyone could afford. The big idea: a giant job becomes possible when you break it into small, simple steps. And an idea you can share with the whole world is how you change it. A true story for curious kids, ages 6 and up. Part of Little Mavericks.

Off the coast of Portugal, a wall of water taller than a building comes roaring in, and instead of running, she rides it. Meet Justine Dupont, a girl from the French coast who became one of the best big-wave surfers in the world, in a sport almost everyone said wasn't for women. The big idea: courage isn't the absence of fear. It's the preparation that lets you act anyway. A true story for curious kids, ages 6 and up. Part of Little Mavericks.