Elizabeth learned at the age of ten that she would one day be queen. As a fourteen-year-old, she used the radio during World War II to encourage children all over the world. When her father died, she ascended to the throne at the age of 25. But she still had a lot to learn; she took lessons in English constitution and politics from a professor. Her private tutors had had a different task: to make a lady out of the princess. And now she was supposed to negotiate with prime ministers! And she has been doing that for seventy years now!

Little People, Big Dreams tells the impressive life stories of great people: Each of these personalities, whether artist, pilot or scientist, has achieved the unimaginable. Yet it all began when they were still small: with big dreams.