Steven Spielberg: Director of Blockbuster Films (People to Know Today)

Edge, Laura B.

ISBN 10: 0766028887 ISBN 13: 9780766028883

Publisher: Enslow Pub Inc, 2009

Synopsis

These biographies for teen readers describe the lives and achievements of well-known, significant Americans of the 20th and 21st centuries using color layouts, informative sidebars, and lots of supplementary data.

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From Booklist

“As a child, Steven Spielberg devised creative ways to torment his sisters, evidence of an imaginative mind destined for moviemaking success.” Elevated at least slightly above merely functional by such touches of humor, this title delivers information about Spielberg’s spectacular career that is easily available elsewhere—but unlike most earlier biographies, this one carries the tale right up to the recent release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, an event that will stir renewed interest in the filmmaker. Well endowed with color publicity photos of the producer-director on and off the set, and capped by carefully selected lists of print and Web resources, this entry in the People to Know Today series covers Spielberg’s public achievements, slips in a few glimpses of his private life, and provides readers with some insight into his work ethic and unparalleled skill as a storyteller. Pair this drier yet more up-to-date book with Susan Goldman Rubin’s Steven Spielberg, Crazy for Movies (2002). Grades 5-8. --John Peters

Edition details

• Publisher: Enslow Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0766028887
• ISBN 13: 9780766028883
• Binding: Library Binding
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 128