She was the screenwriter of the 2014 Hallmark Hall of Fame Christmas movie: One Christmas Eve. The film first aired on Public Television sponsored by Chicago Public Television station WTTW. She was the writer and director of the film Heidi 4 Paws (2008), which is a retelling of the children's classic story of Heidi, written by Johanna Spyri in 1880, but with live-action dogs in all of the parts. Sloan was the screenwriter on Steve Irwin's feature film for MGM The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002). Sloan followed this up when she wrote and directed the independent film The Secret Life of Girls which debuted at the Seattle film Festival. She was the first woman to direct a live action film for Disney when she both wrote and directed the soccer film The Big Green (1995). Her film credits include writing Made in America (1993), and writing and producing Angels in the Outfield (1994).

She received her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and after working briefly at Grey Advertising in New York City, moved to Los Angeles where she sold her first screenplay at 24 years old. She spent her childhood living in California, the Netherlands, Turkey, Washington D.C. Goldberg and architect mother Robin Montgomery. Sloan was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan to psychology professor Lewis R. 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! Bubbling over with humor and tenderness, this is an irresistible story of self-discovery and of the role models who forever change us.Available for purchase at:Amazon - Audiobook (CD format)Barnes & Noble - Audiobook (CD format)Books A Million - Audiobook (CD format)Hudson BooksellersIndieBound - Audiobook (CD format)Powell's - Audiobook (CD format)TargetWalmart - Audiobook (CD format)Google Play StoreiBooksKoboAudible - Audiobook (Downloadable format)audiobooks.Holly Goldberg Sloan (born 1958) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and New York Times bestselling novelist. Chang, Julia’s own sense of self as an artist grows. As 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-and with her deeply artistic neighbor, Mrs. 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. In this heartwarming and funny middle-grade novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Counting by 7s, Julia grows into herself while playing a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz 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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