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Thursday 12 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.

Shirley began doing dances and songs at the age of four, she managed to show in the some of the musical such as the stand up cheer at the age of six and finally at her age of ten, she became the center of attraction as the number one box-attraction for the Americans.

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.

Cases of racism and sexism were common and the studio acted as an educational one on slavery. There were no payments in rehearsals and participants could go up to two weeks with no pay. She received a total amount of around ten dollars per day during the time of shooting. Some terms and conditions that were put in place were very severe like one that saw punishing a child by giving her a punishing box of ice that was large to cause harm.

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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