![]() Along with the authors of two other children's books, both living in Florida, Margaret Cardillo met with the state's first lady, as well as 60 young students from Tallahassee area schools. ![]() Now 30 years old and a graduate student at University of Miami, Cardillo drove up to Tallahassee with her father, Naples attorney John Cardillo, for the affair on Thursday. Rick Scott, at a book signing in Barnes & Noble, Cardillo was delighted to receive an invitation to a literary event for children at the Florida Governor's Mansion, at 700 North Adams Street in Tallahassee. With whimsical, '50s evoking illustrations by Julia Denos, the 32 pages of "Just Being Audrey" show how Hepburn used her fame to benefit the disadvantaged, particularly children, all over the world, through her work for UNICEF.Īfter meeting Florida's First Lady Ann Scott, wife of Gov. "She was too tall, her feet too big, and her neck was too long. "More than anything, Audrey wanted to be a ballerina," the book begins. ![]() ![]() Naples native and author Margaret Cardillo's first children's book ? her first book, period ? garnered glowing reviews from "Booklist" and "Publisher's Weekly," which said "Audrey Hepburn proves as irresistible a character in the pages of a children's book as she did?on the silver screen."Ĭardillo's book, "Just Being Audrey," presents the iconic actress, not just as a screen star, but as the humanitarian activist she became, and as the "ugly duckling" child she was before either. Then, it got her invited to the Florida Governor's Mansion. ![]()
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