👑 Dream Big, Young Scholar

25 Stories to Dream It, Build It & Become It
What happens when children are given more than a story—when they're given the opportunity to think, reflect, create, and see themselves differently?
Dream Big, Young Scholar is an 80-page illustrated digital story and activity book created to help young readers build confidence, strengthen critical-thinking skills, make thoughtful decisions, and dream bigger about who they can become.
Through 25 relatable short stories, children meet Young Scholars navigating real experiences—friendship, mistakes, money choices, fear, responsibility, creativity, courage, kindness, identity, integrity, and following their dreams.
But they don't just read.
Young Scholars are invited to write, draw, answer questions, solve problems, reflect on their choices, and connect each lesson to their own lives.
The book is organized into three powerful sections:
✨ DREAM IT — Discover your ideas, imagination, gifts, and possibilities.
🛠️ BUILD IT — Learn through choices, challenges, mistakes, responsibility, and perseverance.
👑 BECOME IT — Grow in confidence, character, kindness, integrity, and self-belief.
Inside you'll find 25 illustrated stories, reflection and writing activities, creative challenges, Young Scholar Wisdom, vocabulary-building opportunities, affirmations, and end-of-book reflection activities designed to turn reading into something children can actually use in their everyday lives.
Most importantly, Dream Big, Young Scholar intentionally places Black children at the center as thinkers, dreamers, creators, problem-solvers, leaders, and future builders.
Perfect for independent reading, family reading time, homeschool enrichment, mentoring, and supplemental learning at home.
📥 DIGITAL DOWNLOAD
80 pages • Illustrated PDF • Instant access
$17.99 — Personal & Family Use
Created by Cristal Jazmin Tejeda
Educator, storyteller & founder of Read to You 365
Read to You 365 — Where We Read to You Books About You.
This is a CJT Production.