Meg Cabot - The Princess Diaries
"[In reading The
Princess Diaries] I hope girls will realize that they are not
alone in feeling the way I did when I was in high school - like a great
big freak! Also that "normal" is not what they see on TV. being true to
yourself, and your friends, is way more important than being part of
the "in crowd." I am living proof that it is possible to profit from
being a high school freak." - Meg Cabot
"My greatest influence was not an author at
all, but a film director:
George Lucas. I was 11 when I first saw Star Wars, and it changed my
life. I realized then that you can actually make money from making
stuff up. It was very illuminating." - Meg Cabot
The Author: Meg
Cabot was born in Indiana two years to the day after Princess Stephanie
of Monaco. She graduated from Indiana University with a fine arts
degree. Some of her favorite authors are Mark Twain, Jane Austen, David
Sedaris, and Dave Barry. She lives in Key West, Florida with her
husband and a one-eyed cat named Henrietta. Meg has written over forty
novels.
The Books:
Fourteen-year-old Mia, a New Yorker, is astounded to find out that she
is the princess of the European principality of Genovia. In the series,
Mia tries to balance a normal life, dating included, with her duties as
a royal. Written as a series of diary entries, Mia's hilarious insights
are chronicled during her early high school years.
Not pictured are Sweet
Sixteen Princess, Princess
Lessons, and Perfect
Princess.
Louise
Rennison - Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
"I write in a very eccentric place in the
middle of town called "the Natural
Health Centre" it's a centre where they run classes in yoga and shiatsu
and
dancing, 5 rhythms, belly dancing, tai chi , everything so if I get
bored...er...no
I mean...creatively blocked, I can nip down and watch odd blokes in
caftans
trying to dance and thrust their pelvises around to belly dancing
music. Very
uplifting." - Louise Rennison
The
Author: Louise Rennison was born in Leeds, Yorkshire. She
currently lives in Brighton, England. In addition to writing the
Georgia Nicolson novels, she is a reporter, columnist, and creater of a
one-woman autobiographical show entitled " Stevie Wonder Touched My
Face." Louise has two goldfish and her life motto is "I came, I saw, I
conga'd."
The Books: British
teenager Georgia Nicolson keeps a journal of her dealings with her love
interest Robbie, Angus the cat, nightmarish family vacations, trips to
Hamburgeragogoland (otherwise known as America), and her family and
friends. Startled by his
Furry Shorts is due out in May 2006.
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