What are your favorite books? Your favorite movies? Your favorite songs? When I was on book tour in the UK a kid in Wales asked me to name my favorite cheese. I’m often asked by readers about my favorite things. Holly Goldberg Sloan on Her Favorite Things…. Holly lives with her husband in Santa Monica, California. Her first middle-grade novel, Counting by 7s, is a New York Timesbestseller. After graduating from Wellesley College, she began writing and directing family feature films, including Angels in the Outfield and Made in America. Holly Goldberg Sloan was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and spent her childhood living in Holland Istanbul, Turkey Washington, D.C. Soon, she doesn’t want to fade into the background–and it’s a good thing, because her director has more big plans for Julia! Some Nifty Book Links: Chang, Julia’s own sense of self as an artist grows.

Julia becomes friendly with the poised and wise Olive–one of the adults with dwarfism who’ve joined the production’s motley crew of Munchkins.

She hasn’t ever thought of herself as a performer, but when the wonderful director of Oz casts her as a Munchkin, she begins to see herself in a new way. Synopsis: Julia is very short for her age, but by the end of the summer run of The Wizard of Oz, she’ll realize how big she is inside, where it counts.

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