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Lights! Camera! Alice!

Lights! Camera! Alice!

The Thrilling True Adventures of the First Woman Filmmaker (Film Book for Kids, Non-Fiction Picture Book, Inspiring Children's Books)

by Mara Rockliff and Simona Ciraolo
Hardback
Age range: 5 to 8 years old Publication Date: 11/09/2018

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Meet Alice Guy-Blach . She made movies--some of the very first movies, and some of the most exciting Blow up a pirate ship? Why not? Crawl into a tiger's cage? Of course Leap off a bridge onto a real speeding train? It will be easy Driven by her passion for storytelling, Alice saw a potential for film that others had not seen before, allowing her to develop new narratives, new camera angles, new techniques, and to surprise her audiences again and again. With daring and vision, Alice Guy-Blach introduced the world to a thrilling frontier of imagination and adventure, and became one of filmmaking's first and greatest innovators. Mara Rockliff tells the story of a girl who grew up loving stories and became an acclaimed storyteller and an inspiration in her own right.
ISBN:
9781452141343
9781452141343
Category:
People & places (Children's / Teenage)
Age range:
5 to 8 years old
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
11-09-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Chronicle Books LLC
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
285.75x238.25x12.7mm
Weight:
0.53kg
Mara Rockliff

Mara Rockliff is the author of many books for children, including the Orbis Pictus Honor Book Mesmerized and Anything But Ordinary Addie, both illustrated by Iacapo Bruno; Around America to Win the Vote, illustrated by Hadley Hooper; Doctor Esperanto and the Language of Hope, illustrated by Zosia Dzierzawska; Jefferson Measures a Moose, illustrated by S. D. Schindler; Chik Chak Shabbat, illustrated by Kyrsten Brooker; and Me and Momma and Big John, illustrated by William Low, a Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book and Golden Kite Award winner. She lives in Pennsylvania, USA, with her family.

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