Gabrielle Bondi

Co-Founder

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Gabrielle founded The Young Folks in 2010 with Luciana Villalba. Since then, she has served as editor-in-chief and oversees the staff and editorial content on The Young Folks. She recently graduated from Northwestern University and is now working on her master's degree at the Medill School of Journalism.

Book Review: ‘Wonderstruck’ by Brian Selznick

By: GabrielleAdelle After falling in love with The Invention of Hugo Cabret, I was excited to get my hands on Brian Selznick’s new book, Wonderstruck. With the same mediums he used in Hugo Cabret, pencil drawings and words, he tells…

Book Review: ‘The Girl of Fire and Thorns’ by Rae Carson

By: GabrielleAdelle When it comes to young adult lit, fantasy adventure isn’t something that has impressed me. Much of it is too centered on a romance or the plot is rather weak and unoriginal. I was a bit hesitant going…

Film Review: ‘In Time,’ starring Justin Timberlake & Amanda Seyfried

By: GabrielleAdelle I so badly want to make a pun about how In Time is such a waste of time. I guess I already did. But it really does get the point across right away. In Time may have a…

Film News: 8 New ‘The Hunger Games’ Character Posters feat. Haymitch, Cinna, Effie & more!

Yay! We finally get an official look at Woody Harrelson as Haymitch, Lenny Kravitz as Cinna, Elizabeth Banks as Effie, Amandla Stenberg as Rue, and Alexander Ludwig as Cato. There may be more, we’ll update as they become available! Click…

Film Review: ‘Anonymous,’ starring Rhys Ifans & Vanessa Redgrave

By: GabrielleAdelle “Was Shakespeare a fraud?” is the tagline for Roland Emmerich’s new film, Anonymous. The film follows a theory that the Earl of Oxford was the true writer of Shakespeare’s masterpieces. While I find the theory unbelievable, I can’t…

Film Review: ‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’ starring Elizabeth Olsen

By: GabrielleAdelle Who didn’t know that the Olsen twins had a little sister neither? Elizabeth Olsen, the most under-the-radar (and most talented) Olsen sibling makes her big debut in the critically-acclaimed indie film, Martha Marcy May Marlene. I finally got…

TV Show Reviews: ‘Grimm’ vs. ‘Once Upon a Time’

By: GabrielleAdelle Fairy tales are all the rage right now. It’s mostly evident in the film industry. The success of Alice in Wonderland has green lit many fairy tale projects, like Peter Pan and three different Snow White films.  It’s…