Product Description

"When I was little, I could hardly do anything. But now I can do lots of things, like braid my own hair and go to nmusery school. I'm not a baby anymore. I'm me!"Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell perfectly capture a little girl's simple, childlike celebration of herself, as she looks back on her childhood from the lofty height of four and a half years. This spirited view of growing up is perfect for the youngest readers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11216 in Books
• Brand: Harper Collins Publishers
• Published on: 1995-09-30
• Released on: 1995-08-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 32 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780064434232
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From Publishers Weekly
A "winsome, upbeat work," said PW, whose collaborators "evoke a healthy child's proud sense of self." Ages 4-8.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Ages 3-6. In her first book, Curtis capitalizes on the notion that kids love hearing about themselves as babies and takes it one delicious step further by having a four-year-old tell on herself. In a playful first-person narrative, the sprightly young miss describes the many ways she has left babyhood behind: no more "silly hair" or wearing "floaties" in the pool, no more eating "goo and yucky stuff." In keeping with the lively text, the watercolor illustrations are a congenial, colorful scramble, with many freewheeling, double-page spreads showing the little girl as both baby and preschooler. Despite the confusion this occasionally causes, the artwork's good humor perfectly matches the jaunty air of the words and beautifully captures the narrator, naughty and nice, happy and proud. Stephanie Zvirin

Review
"Her rollicking enthusiasm is infectious, especially in the joyous, chaotic, colorful watercolors." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review

Children's Choices for 1994Award -- IRA/Children's Book Council

Customer Reviews

A real treat
What a wonderful idea! It's a celebration of kid-hood (vs baby-dom), about a girl who looks back on her childhood from the grand old age of four and a half years and marvels at all the things she can do now. Like braid her hair, go to school, eat pizza and paint your toes (bubblegum) pink.

It's infectious and a real treat! Great to give to an older child who may be feeling a bit left out now that a new baby has invaded the household.

For once it's not about the baby!
The pictures are great fun. If you have to read the book 20 or 30 times, it helps to have something new peek at you out of those rich pictures every once in a while. And I love the story too. This book is about being a big kid, versus a being a baby. Too many new sibling books make the new baby the subject. I think most new big siblings have had just about enough of those darn babies. And it's funny. My daughter and I disagree about what's really happening in the picture that goes with the part about time-outs, but we both think it's funny.

Cute, but...
I have to agree with some other reviewers. I just had a really hard time getting past no car seat (and riding up front!) for a 4 year old. What an awful example! I also took real issue with the idea that Cheetos and Captain Crunch are things 4 year olds should be eating.

As adorable as the illustrations and part of the text are, any book where I have to change a good portion of the words when reading aloud is a big NO to me.