凯莉书康疗法.pdf

Kylies book therapy 1 Kylies book therapy 凯莉书康疗法 Pop Star Writes Childrens Story 歌星写童书 Read the text below and do the activity that follows. 阅读下面的短文，然后完成练习。 First Madonna did it and now Kylies doing it. Two of the worlds best known pop divas have been branching out. Instead of performing concerts in packed stadiums around the world and recording multi-million selling albums, they have turned their attention to the more gentle world of childrens publishing. Madonnas book The English Roses came out in 2003 and now Kylie Minogues novel The Showgirl Princess, a story about one girls journey to stardom, has just been published. Both women are already famous for being multi-talented. Both are well- known world-wide for their singing, dancing and acting but now its their writing skills that they are keen to share with the rest of us. Kylie began acting on Australian TV when she was 11 years old but it was her role as the teenage Charlene in the soap opera Neighbours that really put her on the international map. Her on-screen boyfriend (played by Jason Donovan) in Neighbours became her off-screen love and when the two of them recorded the duet Especially for You in 1989 it seemed that romance, pop music and success were all Kylies for the taking. 16 years later her charmed life was shattered with the news that she had breast cancer. Her world tour was cancelled and she underwent surgery in May 2005. It was while she was recovering from her breast cancer treatment that she wrote The Showgirl Princess. She said it was therapeutic to be working on something while she was recuperating. Madonna said one of the reasons for writing The English Roses was that she wanted to do something for her children. Kylies reason is rather different. She admits the idea of the book came from her actor boyfriend Oliver Martinez but that she has always had an inter