Thursday, June 5, 2014

A Look Into Childrens Book About Child Stars

By Sally Delacruz


There are different books that children enjoy reading at their different age. Based on a true story of a beautiful girl known as Shirley, Shirley the temple story is one of the famous childrens book about child stars. She was the Hollywood little star for the longest period starting from 1934 to 1940.

At the age of four, Shirley started dancing and singing. She was able to showcase some of her abilities at musicals like the stand up cheer when she was just six. Finally at the age of ten she became a center of attraction in Hollywood.

The book talks about the little star Shirley who won many awards among them is the Oscar award in 1988 as a superstar in the book of Shirley temple. At a very pre-teen age her parents mismanaged her earnings but she was able to fight her passion, allegations and ambitions of being a superstar. From 1958 to 1961 it was a television series that interested kids, which was hosted and narrated by actress Shirley temple originating from United States and was narrated in English.

The production story was prepared by Paula Hart who is her mother and daughter Joan Melissa. This American children series has been narrated and hosted by an actress called Shirley Temple. The television series premiered from the year 1958 to 1961. The famous kids anthology series presented by Shirley originated from the united states with English being the language of usage. The series have two seasons and with a total of forty one episodes.

The storybook narrates about Shirley life who died at the age of 85 she became one of most famous child in the world. She was enrolled at the age of three at the Hollywood dance studio after she got spotted by scouts from a minor studio. She signed in for a two year contract at an amount of 50 dollars per week and when she started she faced challenges.

For Shirley, a box of ice was given to her severally and even when she got sick she was still forced to act and dance on an injured foot. Patience pays, she was finally invited to auditions in a film that was paying 25dollar and this opened doors for more contracts that made her be in top list of the great money-making people in the world. Hand in hand with this was a television series with 41 episodes and was in two episodes.

Shirley was never lucky and received the ice box at various instances. At one time when she fell sick and underwent an operation, she was still forced to dance and work on an injured foot. She did not wait for long when she received an invitation to attend auditions that made her superstar in the film Stand Up and Cheer. She got able to net a good twenty five dollar on this and she signed extra more contracts until she topped as the most money making superstar in the world.

Children read this book and get self esteem that make them progressive in life and realize that everything is possible in life. Shirley started it in a tender age and at the age five she could sing, dance and sing, had a bright character and always cheerful in her films. That made her earn millions dollars gaining international fame.




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