One day Michael came home crying. His dream had been shattered, he had not been accepted into his school's basketball team. He was too small, the coach said. "Go out and earn it," his mother told him. And he did. He grew to almost six feet tall and made the Chicago Bulls the most successful team in the American league. With the US team he won gold twice at the Olympic Games. At the end of his career, he was named "Ball Sportsman of the Century".

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