To the Top of the World

Barbara Hillary, the First Black Woman to Reach the North and South Poles

Deborah Blumenthal author Anastasia Magloire Williams illustrator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Simon & Schuster

Publishing:20th Nov '25

£12.99

This title is due to be published on 20th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

To the Top of the World cover

Go exploring with Barbara Hillary, the first Black woman to set foot on both the North and South Poles in this thrilling and inspiring picture book biography about perseverance, imagination, and following your dreams.

As a young girl, Barbara Hillary imagined a life of adventure. Despite facing hardships in her childhood and illness as an adult, she never gave up on her dream: to travel the world and explore hard-to-reach places. So, at age seventy-five, she became the first Black woman to set foot on the North Pole. Less than four years later, she did the same at the South Pole.

Barbara loved everything the world has to offer. During her travels, she discovered that the remote places she cared so much about were threatened by climate change. From then on, she dedicated herself to saving the planet for future generations. She never let her age—or anything else—stop her until she stood at the top of the world!

ISBN: 9781665927734

Dimensions: 254mm x 254mm x 3mm

Weight: unknown

40 pages