Too often, young people are underestimated; they are seen as inexperienced, immature, or unrealistic. Yet many individuals prove the opposite. They follow their passion, speak up when staying quiet would be easier, turn ideas into action, and create things the world has never seen.
Meet fifty such Swiss youths, past and present, from many backgrounds and every corner of the country. They are athletes, artists, inventors, activists, entrepreneurs, and pioneers in science and technology. They have climbed mountains, coded new possibilities, composed fresh sounds, and ignited change for our planet. All of them have shattered clichés about youth and show that age is no barrier to creating a better world.
Read their stories. Feel their impact. Let their voices inspire.
Publication scheduled for 27 August 2026!!
Available in English, German and French.
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The Creative Team
Laurie Theurer was born and raised in California. She left to serve two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand, and then moved to Switzerland a short time later.
Her first book, Swisstory: The Untold, Bloody, and Absolutely Real History of Switzerland was awarded the 2020 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award. She’s published lots of flash fiction, several picture books, and is now focusing on non-fiction books.
Laurie lives near Zurich and is represented by The Seymour Agency.
http://www.laurietheurer.com
Mireille Lachausse is the illustrator of the 50 Amazing Swiss series and author/illustrator of Kira and Kooki, a comic for Kaleio magazine.
After an artistic residency in Genoa awarded to the comic book association Splotch, she published the graphic novel Bleu de Genes. In 2017, she was selected as one of ten artists in Adobe’s Hidden Treasures of Creativity competition, which resulted in an exhibition in the Munch Museum, Oslo.
Mireille studied illustration & comics at EPAC in Saxon. She lives in Aigle, Switzerland.
http://www.milapictures.com
Jeanne Darling is a retired educator with an Ed.M from Harvard Graduate School. She has authored numerous articles and presentations for parents. Her latest writing includes four books published by Bergli, Basel’s Hidden Stories (2017; 2nd ed 2019), The Monster Book of Switzerland (2018), Bern’s Hidden Stories (2019) and Basel, The Graphic Novel (2022). Jeanne moved to Basel, Switzerland in 1991 where she continues to work with young children, parents, and teachers.
Annika Ringaby Woehr, originally Swedish, grew up in Geneva and always returns to her beloved Switzerland despite living abroad with her husband and sons. A biologist with a teaching degree and a love for stories, she published How Bertie Bunny Became Brave (2021), a rhyming picture book on mindfulness. In 2025, Annika and her husband begin a new chapter, running a wellbeing retreat in southern France, where she plans to write surrounded by frogs, crickets, and oak trees.
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