Emma Watson: From Wizards to Wallflowers (Pop Culture Bios) - Softcover

Higgins, Nadia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1467723754 ISBN 13: 9781467723756

Publisher: LernerClassroom, 2014

Synopsis

You may know that Emma Watson rose to fame playing Hermione in the beloved Harry Potter films. But did you know that she:
· is supersmart and studied at Brown University?
· was so nervous about playing Sam in The Perks of Being a Wallflower that she emailed the director to tell him he could do better?
· designs her own line of clothing for People Tree, a company that's known for paying its workers a fair wage?

Want to know more about the life of this gifted celebrity? Read on to learn all about Emma's childhood, family, likes and dislikes, upcoming projects, hopes for the future, and more!

About this title

About the Author:

Nadia Higgins is the author of 50-plus books for the school library market. She also worked as an editor in the industry for almost ten years. Many of her books have a science bent, though she's also written about pop stars, car art, and zombies. Nadia lives in Minneapolis with her husband and two young daughters.

Review:

"Shorter than many easy-read biographies, these volumes are jam-packed with information yet manage to avoid a busy appearance on the page and information overload. Colorful blocks with rounded edges call attention to photos' relevance to the main text. Squared-off blocks highlight and define unusual vocabulary using color and different fonts without distracting from the main text. It is a successful formula for short, easy-to-read biographies of popular young icons.

"These three books prove how important the writer is to a book, even in publisher-created series such as Pop Culture Bios. While Schwartz's book about Rebel Wilson is informative (Wilson went to law school and negotiates her own contracts, for instance), it does not pull the reader along the way Higgins's clear, engaging writing does in her biographies of Emma Watson and Nicholas Hoult. Higgins makes her subjects' extraordinary lives relatable for the average reader by writing about Nick's short-lived knitting obsession, or Emma's joy at blending in with the crowd at university. She writes not only about big salaries and award shows, but also about performance nerves and stunts gone wrong. Somehow, Rebel's biography, while it mentions her dog-handler parents, her own shyness, and her many accomplishments, is less intriguing. Schwartz's subject is the only comedian of the three, but aside from an introductory description of her purposeful mishap at the MTV Movie Awards, her biography is all business. Higgins, on the other hand, strings odd tidbits throughout the main text (e.g. the beanstalk in Jack the Giant Slayer was partially made from celery) to keep the audience reading closely so as not to miss a thing. 4Q 3P M J." ―VOYA

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About this edition

• Publisher: LernerClassroom
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1467723754
• ISBN 13: 9781467723756
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32