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.

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.

Racism and sexiest were among the challenges that she underwent, slavery in educational studio was rampant and this was clearly seen during the rehearsals which were without pay and could extend to a period of about two weeks. 10 dollars were paid during shooting and any misbehaving child was punished using a block of ice.

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 not lucky enough and received the box most of the times and even when she got sick and underwent operation and still forced to work and dance on injured foot. But not long enough she got an invitation to auditions that made her a superstar for a film of Stand Up and cheer and here she earned good cash merely $25 for this and signed many more contracts until she was the top 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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