Mary-Kate & Ashley: Our Story--Updated Edition

Mary-Kate & Ashley: Our Story--Updated Edition
Author: Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2003-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780060568481

This book includes information, statistics, and photos of the popular Olsen twins.

Mary-Kate & Ashley: Our Story--Updated Edition

Mary-Kate & Ashley: Our Story--Updated Edition
Author: Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2003-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0060568488

This book includes information, statistics, and photos of the popular Olsen twins.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
Author: Stephanie Fitzgerald
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781410916624

Presents a short biography of Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, chronicling their childhood, their entrance into show business at the age of nine months and later film roles, their family, and more.

The Olsen Twins

The Olsen Twins
Author: Jacqueline Laks Gorman
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2007-07-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0836881990

Highlights the lives and careers of the twin Olsen sisters, who began their acting careers at the age of nine months in the television series "Full House" and who today produce and star in their own videos, CDs, and books.

Childhood and Celebrity

Childhood and Celebrity
Author: Jane O'Connor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2017-03-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317518942

The twenty-first century has seen an explosion in the ways and means in which children can become part of celebrity culture. With the rise in popularity of reality TV, child beauty pageants, talent shows, and social media platforms, as well as more established routes to fame through TV, cinema, theatre and music, the number of children establishing a presence in public life continues to proliferate. Childhood and Celebrity brings together international scholarly writing and research about famous children, and representations of childhood, from a range of disciplines including Childhood Studies, Celebrity Studies, Cultural Studies and Film Studies in order to open up a theoretical space in which to explore and understand the complex relationship between contemporary childhood and celebrity culture. This unique collection includes detailed case studies of specific child performers such as McCaulay Culkin and Miley Cyrus, histories of child stars in the ‘Golden Age’ of Hollywood, analyses of representations of children in film and discussions of children as media creators and producers. Key themes of transgression, gender, ‘coming of age’, childhood innocence and children’s rights recur in the chapters and present a compelling argument for the emergence of the field of Childhood and Celebrity as an area of study in its own right.

Dare to Make History

Dare to Make History
Author: Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson
Publisher: Radius Book Group
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2021-02-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1635767288

Dare to Make History is the story of two courageous and talented women who weren’t willing to accept anything less than being treated as equals. On their journey to a gold medal in women’s ice hockey, they became role models for generations before and after them. Twins Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and Monique Lamoureux-Morando started playing ice hockey with their four older brothers and their friends on a frozen pond next to their home in North Dakota. No girls hockey teams, no problem―they just played on boys teams. They went on to win six World Championships and played in three Olympics, winning two silver medals and ultimately a gold medal in South Korea in 2018 for the USA Women’s National Team. They did not allow roadblocks and discrimination deter them from taking on their governing body—USA Hockey—threatening to boycott the 2017 World Championships and jeopardizing their ability to compete in the 2018 Olympics unless their gender equity issues were addressed. The success of Monique, Jocelyne, and their team thrust them into the center of the struggle for gender equity, for women in hockey and in sports in general, as well as in society at large. In Dare to Make History, the Lamoureux twins chronicle their journey to the pinnacle of their sport, their efforts along with almost 150 other hockey players to start a new professional women’s hockey league, their training to come back and make another national team after giving birth, their tireless efforts to advance the interests of disadvantaged communities in closing the digital divide, and their ongoing contributions as role models championing the dreams of future generations of girls in sports, education, and the workplace. This is not a hockey book. It is not a girls book. It is a book about the importance of the fight for equity, particularly gender equity. It is the inspirational story of how two young women from a small town in North Dakota have dreamed big—had the courage to take on huge battles—and in the end how they have dared to make history.