With a lot consideration on Taylor Swift’s breakup with Joe Alwyn this week, you possibly can nearly neglect that the “Lavender Haze” singer is a extremely adorned musician, with every little 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 he or she’ll quickly add one other one, as she turns into one of many few celebrities to have their very own Little Golden E-book biography.
Writer Golden Books introduced this month that 24-page biographies of Swift and different celebrities, designed for kids ages 2-5, might be launched over the following three months. Swift’s installment, Taylor Swift: A Little Golden E-book 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 largest 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 at all times including to its checklist of such titles, however the celebs themselves have no say in it.
“We’re continually updating the operating checklist that we now have, and prior to now two years we now have tripled the variety of biographies we publish yearly with a purpose 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 widespread tradition, in addition to people who find themselves inspiring and are position fashions for kids. We additionally obtain options from our gross sales staff, 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 trend icon Iris Apfel might be accessible Might 2. On July 18, books about achieved 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 folks akin to Supreme Courtroom Justice Sonia Sotomayor, distinguished entertainer Harry Belafonte and Dr. Anthony Fauci, who led the nation by way of 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 consists of collectors and grandparents,’ Fry remarks. “So many individuals keep in mind the basic Little Golden Books from their very own childhoods, and so they assist the brand new line extensions as effectively.”
My Little Golden E-book About Betty White was an particularly large hit, even with grownup followers of the late star of Golden Women and The Mary Tyler Moore Present. Printed in 2021, Amazon nonetheless has it listed as its high vendor in performing arts bios for kids, and it reveals up often in present shops and lists. The amount was such a smash that Golden Books revealed a bigger collector’s version with bonus content material, a Huge Little Golden E-book, 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 report to interrupt.
