Tom Hanks: Superstar

by Barbara Kramer

I like boredom, I save the exciting stuff for work, says two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks, who has traveled on celluloid into space and leaped into a flaming volcano; fallen in love with a mermaid and managed a baseball team. In Tom Hanks: Superstar, author Barbara Kramer tells the story of a little boy with an unsettled life who found an identity as a funny kid. Hanks did not dream of stardom, but his talent and energy propelled him upward. In real life, Hanks says, he is an ordinary guy, but onscreen, in films including Splash, Big, Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, Toy Story, and The Green Mile, Tom Hanks has proved that he is a risk-taker, and a big winner.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0766014363
• ISBN13: 9780766014367
• Release Date: January 1836
• Publisher: Enslow Publishing
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 11 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 9