Different Like Coco

Different Like Coco is the biography of Coco Channel for children. Channel was born very poor, and her mother died when she was young, and she was sent to an orphanage where she was even poorer.

Nevertheless, she learned to sew and was sent to school with very affluent young women; both of these things led to her career as a fashion designer who broke all the rules.

You will love both the Channel story and the illustrations in this book, and you will come away admiring the gumption of this little poor girl who made something big of her life.