So You Want To Be An Actor: A Kids' Guide to Acting, Auditions, Stage and Screen Performance, and the Talented Performers Who Bring Characters to Life - Couverture souple

Soules, Linda

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ISBN 10 : 1972766236 ISBN 13 : 9781972766231

Editeur : Linda Colwell, 2026

Synopsis

WINNER — 2026 Purple Dragonfly Book Award (1st Place), Arts/Music
RECIPIENT of the Mom's Choice Award® Gold — Honoring Excellence
WINNER of the Literary Titan Gold Book Award

From the award-winning So You Want To Be A… Series
GRAND PRIZE — 2026 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards
SILVER AWARD — 2026 CIPA EVVY Book Awards, Children's Nonfiction


The script is memorized, the costume fits, and the stage is set — but none of that is the real work of becoming an actor.

So You Want To Be An Actor pulls back the curtain on one of the oldest and most demanding performing arts careers on earth — not the red-carpet fantasy, but the real one. Written for young readers ages 10 to 14, this illustrated nonfiction guide takes kids and tweens inside the rehearsal rooms, audition halls, and theater stages where actors learn their craft from the ground up. It's honest, specific, and built for the curious mind that wants to know what this profession actually looks like before the applause starts.

Inside these pages, young actors and aspiring performers will discover how real training works — the voice and movement exercises that turn a body into an expressive instrument, the script analysis that reveals what a character is truly saying beneath the words, and the drama techniques that let a performer live truthfully in someone else's circumstances. From stage to screen to voice work to physical theater, this book covers the full range of the acting world and what each path demands.

But this isn't just a guide to technique. It's a book about resilience. Actors face rejection not as a rare setback but as the daily texture of a working life. Young readers will learn how performers build the emotional strength to audition again and again, how they prepare scenes and monologues with discipline and imagination, and why the people who stay in this profession say that when a performance truly lands — when the room goes still and something shifts — nothing else comes close.

Whether your child has been cast in every school play since second grade or is quietly reading every part in every story they encounter, this book meets them where they are. It doesn't talk down. It doesn't oversimplify. It treats kids as capable of understanding the real demands of a career in acting — the physical, vocal, and psychological work that sits behind every performance that looks effortless.

Comedy or drama, stage or screen, the greatest performance anyone has ever seen began with someone who was willing to go somewhere true. For the young performer ready to find out if that someone might be them.

Ages 10 to 14. Illustrated nonfiction for kids who take their dreams seriously.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Linda Soules is the author and creator of the So You Want To Be A... series, a growing collection of career-exploration books for readers ages 8-14. The series covers everything from astronauts and marine biologists to magicians, stunt performers, and roller coaster designers. Her philosophy is straightforward: never talk down to kids. Young readers are smarter, more curious, and more capable than the publishing world often gives them credit for, and they deserve books that respect their intelligence while genuinely sparking their enthusiasm. Each title is written to pull back the curtain on a real career - its joys, its challenges, the path to get there - and to leave readers with the sense that the world is wider, more interesting, and more reachable than they imagined. Before turning to children's publishing, Linda spent twenty-five years in law and finance, advising hedge funds and sophisticated financial institutions on complex regulatory matters - a career that taught her precision, discipline, and how to translate intricate subjects into language anyone can use. She brings that same clarity and care to every book she writes, paired with a deep belief that curiosity is the engine of a meaningful life. Linda lives in Seattle with her husband and two children, where the steady rhythm of family life, the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest, and the questions her own kids ask every day continue to fuel her work. Additional information can be found on her website at http: //lindasoules.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Linda Colwell
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1972766236
• ISBN 13: 9781972766231
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 38
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg