Twenty Remarkable Men and Women Susan Cook has assembled the stories of twenty remarkable men and women from around the world including:
- John Harrison – 18th Century England
- Eli Whitney – 18th/19th Century United States
- Sequoyah – 19th Century North America
- Simon Bolivar – 19th Century South America
- Benito Juarez – 19th Century Mexico
- Frederick Douglass – 19th Century United States
- Harriet Tubman – 19th/20th Century United States
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton – 19th Century United States
- Clara Barton – 19th/20th Century United States
- Marie Curie – 19th/20th Century Poland/France
- Janusz Korczak – 19th/20th Century Poland
- Mohandas Gandhi – 19th/20th Century India
- Hellen Keller – 19th/20th Century United States
- Mao Zedong – 20th Century China
- Nien Cheng – 20th Century China
- Jomo Kenyatta – 20th Century Kenya
- Nelson Mandela – 20th Century South Africa
- Martin Luther King, Jr. – 20th Century United States
- Cesar Chavez – 20th Century United States
- Wangari Maathai – 20th/21st Century Kenya
Each chapter has one or more illustrations by students from the San Francisco Waldorf School.
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