With a lot consideration on Taylor Swift’s breakup with Joe Alwyn this week, you may nearly neglect that the “Lavender Haze” singer is a extremely embellished musician, with every thing from 12 Grammys to 14 MTV Video Music Awards to 40 American Music Awards — that is greater than anybody else — sitting on her cabinets. And she or he’ll quickly add one other one, as she turns into one of many few celebrities to have their very own Little Golden Ebook biography.
Writer Golden Books introduced this month that 24-page biographies of Swift and different celebrities, designed for kids ages 2-5, can be launched over the subsequent three months. Swift’s installment, Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Ebook Biography, written by Wendy Loggia and illustrated by Elisa Chavarri, “describes the rise to fame of the Grammy Award–profitable and multiplatinum artist whose distinctive expertise for storytelling has made her one of many greatest superstars in each nation and pop music.” The writer added, “That is an inspiring read-aloud for younger kids and their Swiftie dad and mom!”
A rep for Swift didn’t reply to Yahoo Leisure’s request for remark.
Sonali Fry, the vice chairman and writer of Little Golden Books, explains that the corporate is all the time including to its record of such titles, however the celebs themselves haven’t any say in it.
“We’re always updating the operating record that we’ve got, and up to now two years we’ve got tripled the variety of biographies we publish yearly as a way to sustain with the demand,” Fry tells us. “We publish artists, world leaders, entertainers, and athletes, and we take into consideration who’s resonating proper now in in style tradition, in addition to people who find themselves inspiring and are function fashions for kids. We additionally obtain options from our gross sales workforce, who obtain requests from their accounts.”
Along with the one about Swift, Little Golden Books on Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, celebrated entertainer Julie Andrews and style icon Iris Apfel can be obtainable Might 2. On July 18, books about completed wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, music legend Tony Bennett and late United States Sen. John McCain will land on retailer cabinets. The brand new books will retail for $5.99.
They be a part of titles primarily based on acquainted names together with Swift’s contemporaries in music, like Beyoncé and Dolly Parton, in addition to high-profile individuals equivalent to Supreme Courtroom Justice Sonia Sotomayor, distinguished entertainer Harry Belafonte and Dr. Anthony Fauci, who led the nation by the COVID-19 pandemic whereas serving as chief medical adviser to the president.
Fry factors out that the Little Golden Books line, first revealed in 1942 and supposed to make books for younger readers extra accessible, has a loyal fan base.
“Along with dad and mom, educators, and youngsters, our viewers contains collectors and grandparents,’ Fry remarks. “So many individuals bear in mind the basic Little Golden Books from their very own childhoods, they usually help the brand new line extensions as properly.”
My Little Golden Ebook About Betty White was an particularly massive hit, even with grownup followers of the late star of Golden Ladies and The Mary Tyler Moore Present. Printed in 2021, Amazon nonetheless has it listed as its prime vendor in performing arts bios for kids, and it exhibits up commonly in reward shops and lists. The amount was such a smash that Golden Books revealed a bigger collector’s version with bonus content material, a Large Little Golden Ebook, in November.
“Regardless of Betty’s whirlwind success,” Fry says, “demand for our upcoming Taylor Swift biography signifies that she could overtake Betty within the close to future!”
It could hardly be Swift’s first document to interrupt.
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