When I was little A four-year-old's memoir of her youth

Jamie Lee Curtis, 1958-

Book - 1993

A four-year-old describes how she has changed since she was a baby.

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Genres
Picture books
Published
New York : HarperCollins c1993.
Language
English
Main Author
Jamie Lee Curtis, 1958- (-)
Other Authors
Laura Cornell (illustrator)
Physical Description
unpaged : ill
ISBN
9780613308724
9780606084307
9780060210793
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Review by Booklist Review

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. (Reviewed Oct. 1, 1993)0060210788Stephanie Zvirin

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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Actress Curtis and illustrator Cornell ( Earl's Too Cool for Me ) evoke a healthy child's proud sense of self in this exuberant picture book. The narrator, a girl who prefaces almost every statement with ``When I was little,'' delightedly lists all the things she can do now that she's nursery-school age. ``When I was little, I spilled a lot,'' she explains. ``Mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.'' Pictures of a cheerful baby contrast with the protagonist in her maturity, and both a sunny palette of watercolors and playful lines effectively capture the narrative's buoyant spirit. Unfortunately, the book strikes one sour note: Curtis and Cornell each slip in implicit endorsements of specific cereals and junk foods (Cap'n Crunch, Chee-tos, Animal Crackers)--gratuitous inclusions that mar an otherwise winsome, upbeat work. Ages 4-8. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Review by Horn Book Review

Bright and busy illustrations cover each page of this amusing picture book. The heroine, at age four, has painted toenails and fingernails, eats pizza, and goes to nursery school. Babies, on the other hand, eat 'goo,' cry a lot, and sleep in a crib. On each page, the illustrations cleverly show the differences. A dandy book for the just-before-school age. From HORN BOOK 1993, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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