Kelly Clarkson

by Laurie Collier Hillstrom

Looks at the life and career of the first winner of "American Idol."

128 pages, Library Binding

First published December 7, 2007

Reviews

[Dalia]

Kelly Clarkson is a biography written by the author, Laurie Collier Hillstrom. She is an actress, songwriter and a singer. Kelly had a tough childhood due to the divorce of her parents. But, through the support of her mother, she could achieve her dream. Kelly was a self confident and brave girl. She didn’t care what people thought of her. In 1995, she became part of the junior high choir and then sets her goals to become a professional singer. In 2002, she tries out for the singing competition, American Idol. She then makes it to the finals where she won a million dollar recording contract. After that, she became famous and started releasing her own albums. Kelly won two Grammy pop vocal awards and then became extremely successful. In 2006, she started to perform live at the Super Bowl and the NBA. This book taught the reader how to succeed and achieve dreams in life. As one can see, Kelly started off as a normal Texas girl and ended up following her dreams and becoming a famous pop star worldwide.


Kelly Clarkson is a very inspirational young woman that teaches the reader many important information for our lives. Before reading this book, the reader might have had questions similar to, who are you and how did you become famous. Therefore, due to the cover of the book we can infer that she is a singer. This book is a biography because it talks about someone’s life. The author is telling the reader what happened in somebody’s life. A biography is when someone else writes about your life. Kelly Clarkson never gave up and strived to succeed. Her dream was to become a professional singer. She tried and tried and never gave up until she finally got what she wanted. Kelly teaches the reader to never give up upon your dreams you only live once so make them come true. Also, she is brave and self-confident. She believes in herself and thinks she is perfect. It is very important to like and be proud of yourself. Therefore, Kelly Clarkson is a highly inspiring woman that never gave up and succeeded.

I recommend this book to all middle scholars that enjoy reading biographies especially about famous people. This book will teach them important and inspirational themes. It was very interesting because it taught me new information and it increased my knowledge on how to succeed. It is an appropriate book for young adults, 11- 15 years old. It consists of some challenging vocabulary but a clear understanding. Finally, the book also includes pictures making it easier for the reader to understand. As one can see, the biography about Kelly Clarkson is a very fun way to learn about her and her life. Read it!

[Mohamed Azmi · Rating 5 out of 5]

The amazing biography Kelly Clarkson is written by the famous author Laurie Collier Hillstrom. The biography mainly talks about Kelly Clarkson’s life as a singer and how she became well known by the world. Kelly Clarkson was born in April 24th 1982 in Texas. Kelly was a singer and song writer and her genre was pop rock. As she grew up singing songs, she won many prizes and began to be well known. She was really talented at singing, writing songs, and also acting. She had patience in acting. People who knew Kelly Clarkson always said she had a beautiful voice. Her best songs were Thankful, Breakaway, My December, Stronger, and All I ever wanted. With these beautiful songs, she won awards that made her happy. Thankful was a song that was sold over 4.5 million times internationally. In her life, Kelly won two Grammy Awards which was a good thing. People internationally said that Catch My Breath was her best song because it went in the program of hot 100 which is rare for someone to make.
Throughout the biography, the reader might describe Kelly physically and mentally. Kelly Clarkson was a beautiful woman with a loud and good voice that made fans like her. Mentally, Kelly was intelligent and wasn’t shy. Also, Kelly listened to everyone not only some people, she liked everyone who like her. What one would like about her personality is that she was nice and not shy; she could sing and act in front of everyone. If I could meet Kelly Clarkson, I would ask her many questions but especially this one; “How did you learn to sing and have a beautiful voice?” Also I would ask her if she had to work really hard to attract fans or did she just sing once and recognized her voice was good and she started singing.
I would recommend this biography to many people. I would recommend it to people who love singing so they can work out their voice and become like Kelly. I would recommend it to people who want to become singers so they could follow Kelly’s path as a small kid to develop and become a singer. Finally, I want to recommend this biography to people who like reading biographies because the biography was well written.