When They Were Kids: Over 400 Sketches of Famous Childhoods

by Carol Orsag Madigan

When Dennis Rodman was fifteen years old, he was only 5'0"!Ernest Hemingway's mother dressed him and his sister like twins--in dresses!Troublemakers Frank Sinatra, Humphrey Bogart, and Cary Grant were... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375703896
• ISBN13: 9780375703898
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Random House Reference Publishing
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Informative, interesting, and fun.

This book is full of surprises about famous people "when they were kids." These authors have plowed through a tremendous amount of materials tell us something new about people we thought we knew. Did you know that Marilyn Monroe sprang from several generations of paranoid schizophrenics? Did you know that Jerry Lewis had to repeat fifth grade? Did you know that child prodigy Mozart was terrified of trumpets? This book would make wonderful reading for almost anyone on your gift list, and for you, too.