Modelland
Encyclopedia
Plot summary
A young model, Tookie De La Crème, is invited to visit the legendary Modelland, along with three other girls, for the chance to become Intoxibellas.Inspiration
Banks has said that the inspiration for Modelland happened one day while she driving down on a street in New York CityNew York City
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. She had been thinking about why supermodels are "super" and the idea of Modelland came to mind.
She wrote on her website, talking about the idea for the book:
"I’m always dreaming up ideas, like when the words “modeling boarding school” floated into my head while I was driving on the FDR highwayFranklin D. Roosevelt East River DriveThe Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive is a freeway-standard parkway on the east side of the New York City borough of Manhattan...
in ManhattanManhattanManhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
. I wrote them down in a little notepad and, five years, thousands of pages and dozens of writing getaways later, I finally get to call myself the author of Modelland."
Cross media promotion
in America's Next Top Model, Cycle 17, Banks instructs the four remaining contestants in episode "Tyson Beckford" to perform as characters in the novel, in a short film based on the book, with part 1 of the film broadcast in that episode, and part 2 scheduled to be broadcast in the next episode.External links
- Modelland website at Random House Teens
- http://www.typef.com/tyra/blog-journey-modelland/#ixzz1bxMlFsgL
- Modelland review at nyulocal.com