Who Do I Want to Become

Winner of the 2018 Nautilus Award for Illustrated Children's Fiction
Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award

Who Do I Want To Become? is for anyone, of any age, who has been stumped by the question of what they’re going to be when they grow up.

A class project is due, and Dylan is struggling with the question: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Ultimately, he realizes that it’s who you are that matters the most.

Who Do I Want To Become? is a refreshing new take on a question asked time and time again. One that invites us to discover something wonderful about ourselves that has nothing to do with what you want to be and everything to do with who you are and who you want to be.

Dr. Rumeet Billan is an award-winning, internationally recognized entrepreneur, learning architect and humanitarian. At the age of twenty-five, and again three years later, Rumeet was named one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women by the Women's Executive Network. She has been profiled as a Generation Entrepreneur by Forbes.com, and her work has been featured in the Globe and Mail and The Financial Post. Rumeet is the President and Chief Learning Architect of Viewpoint Leadership where she has designed and facilitated programs, courses, and training sessions across industries and sectors. She has delivered several TEDx talks, and her talk on The Future of Education at TEDx in Halifax, Nova Scotia was highly lauded and later adapted into a workshop for Ontario students, titled, Who do you want to be when you grow up?™. She provides a platform that encourages youth, women, communities and organizations to envision what could be possible. Rumeet lives in Oakville, Ontario.

Michelle Clement is a children's book designer and illustrator. She was a Chronicle Books Children's Design Fellow in 2016, and now works alongside award-winning children's book author and designer Sara Gillingham in her cozy Vancouver home studio.