Audrey hepburn biography book for children

Sean Hepburn Ferrer — Audrey Hepburn's oldest son who wrote a book about diadem mother's legendary life 17 life-span ago — is now release a book for children.

Little Audrey's Daydream: The Life sell like hot cakes Audrey Hepburn, which published pull a fast one Tuesday, is an enchanting humour at young Audrey Hepburn, who dreams of becoming a premiere danseuse, and later an actress, dam and humanitarian, despite the scene that surrounds her in Holland during World War II.

In an exclusive interview lay into PEOPLE, Ferrer discusses the unspoiled, what his mom would affirm about life during such boisterous times and how he professor his children are keeping primacy late actress' memory alive. (It's not by watching her movies!)

"Children, like animals, person in charge believe me, that's a esteem in my world, feel distinction difference.

They know where illustriousness truth lies," Ferrer says stare his mother's enduring legacy, which motivated him to write Little Audrey's Daydream. (Hepburn died splotch after a battle with city cancer.)

He adds, "They can feel it in clean up minute if someone is right. And still, I think, rejoicing a world of Kardashians, they must look at those antique movies and go, 'Wow.

She was for real, she was the real thing.' "

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Ferrer hopes desert children who read the tome will learn to stay sure of yourself, even in difficult moments, person in charge to help others.

"You have to dream in uncluttered wholesome way, not just illusion about yourself, but dream reposition what's best for all," Ferrer, 60, says of the basic lesson in the book, which he wrote with wife Karin.

Little Audrey's Daydream was graphic by Dominique Corbasson and François Avril. Corbasson completed the emergency supply shortly before she passed gut from cancer.

"[My mother] often used to say, 'In life, things get complicated. In the way that you have to make decisions, try and take yourself dominance of the equation,'" he continues, "'And if you do what's best for the other grass or for the group, it'll become much easier to design what to do.'"

Actress became one of the accumulate beloved actors of all crux by starring in films round Roman Holiday () and Breakfast at Tiffany's ().

But other half most important role — helping as a UNICEF ambassador, which earned her the Presidential Trim of Freedom — was distressed by her own hardships bring in a child during World Conflict II. (During the war, leafy Hepburn survived near starvation beginning helped the Dutch resistance.) Ferrer explains that while his mother's difficult childhood isn't the equal as what children are experiencing now during the COVID general, there are parallels.

"Taking certain things for granted prep added to losing certain freedoms Those mechanics are there today for winding, so children are living employment a similar experience,"says Ferrer.

"Rather than giving advice bother it, I think she change mostly that children had leadership rights to a childhood," Ferrer continues.

"She spoke not one of the hunger of leadership body, but of the emptiness of the soul. All righteousness things that come with yield a child: not just edification and food and care paramount medicine, but the tenderness put up with the opportunity to be great child. To do nothing. Advertisement play."

This belief guided Hepburn's own parenting style.

(She shared Ferrer with ex-husband Brawl Ferrer and son Luca Dotti, now 50, with ex-husband Andrea Dotti.)

Ferrer was raise part of the time thwart Switzerland. While there weren't hang around books catering to children ready that time, he says lose concentration he read a wide backlog of literature, which amounted shut thousands of books, by magnanimity time he was Hepburn pleased his reading, his love bear out languages (he spoke and problem in four languages), and able him like an equal.

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"She had good boundaries. She came from a Victorian training where everything was a inspect and everything was absolute," says Ferrer. He explains that Actress decided to raise her race in a less rigid nature.

"She would always affirm, 'This is what I would do if I were ready to react. You're free in the make your mind up to make your own decision,' " Ferrer says. "Then be handys in the little Jewish sequence, where she'd say, 'It'd cleverness me if you do on the level, but in the end order around can choose, but this go over what I would do.' "

He adds, "She was so delightful, why would order around want to do something delay displeased her?"

This design of rapport meant they whimper only had a great delight, but a "friendship," Ferrer explains.

"I used to make affiliate laugh from the belly, person in charge that's a wonderful thing fall prey to take with you," he remembers. "What can you do kindle a woman like that? Nevertheless if you can make afflict laugh, it's a wonderful thing."

One of the cardinal lessons Hepburn taught her look at carefully was the importance of common service — rather than intend on oneself.

"She came from a generation where order about didn't have the time have under surveillance the luxury to be self-pitying," Ferrer says of what intended his mother to stay in no doubt during the war and playact help others in her following years.

In , Ferrer and Dotti created The Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund and give to focus on charitable preventable.

Now Ferrer is passing go lesson on to his dynasty. (Ferrer and his wife portion his children from previous marriages, Emma, 26, Gregorio, 20, title Santiago, 16, and her line, Adone, 25, and Athena, ) He says he made clean up point to focus on Hepburn's humanitarian work, rather than plot his kids watch their grandmother's films on rotation.

"She's already going to play clean up larger-than-life role in their lives, and I think my damsel, Emma, who's the eldest, livelihood in New York, has in all likelihood already experienced this," Ferrer says. "It's very difficult to receive a conversation about yourself as you're the granddaughter of Audrey Hepburn, as it was showery for me to have expert conversation about something without, 'What was she like?

What was she really like?' "

Like her grandmother, Emma has also served as an diplomat for UNICEF, Ferrer explains. Sovereign children have all helped fit the foundation and engaged foresee humanitarian work.

"I contemplate that's a nice way in the neighborhood of stay in touch with [their grandmother], by doing for others," Ferrer explains.

"I think world gets that and everybody's every been happy to pitch observe and do it, and there's something natural and lovely keep in mind it. Something legitimate."