Thursday 5 June 2014

An Overview Of 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.

Shirley had fame she died at the age of 85, the Hollywood studio enrolled her at the age of three at a minor studio. Scouts spotted her and she was requested to take a contract of two years at a very low amount of 50 dollars per week. This caused a lot of problems to her life at a very tender age but eventually became famous child.

The life of Shirley is narrated in the storybook. This one among the most famous child on earth died at an old age of eighty five years old. She got enrolled at a tender age of three years at the dance studios of Hollywood after she got spotted from a small studio by scouts. She signed in for two years contract at the amount ranging fifty dollars a week and no sooner had she started her career than challenges starting facing her.

There were cases of racism and sexist and it was an educational studio of slavery, rehearsals were done without pay and could even go for more than two weeks without pay. During the shooting period she was paid an amount of about 10 dollars a day. Some terms and conditions were very strike such that in case a child misbehaved she received a punishing box containing a block of ice that was big enough to cause danger.

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.

This is an encouraging storybook for kids that tell more of how one can be a stars even after her childhood is destroyed.Sky is not the limit, Shirley was a little and determined girl who managed to reach heights of the Hollywood stardom, surprising the world with a great personality that made her famous. This encourages kids to be relentlessly determined in life.




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