Jamie Lee Curtis has had many firsts: her first (and only) marriage
to Christopher Guest, her first time holding her children, Annie
and Tom, her first time pretending to be a customer in an episode
of Quincy, and her first time she wrote words that became her first
book. She lives in Los Angeles, the first city she ever lived in,
and is always first in line, first to arrive, first to leave, and
first to sleep.
Laura Cornell lives in New York City with her daughter, Lily (first
and only), but they spend much time in California, Laura's first
state in her first home. She was asked to illustrate Jamie's first
book, and that became ten. Lucky is the first word that comes to
mind.
PreS-Gr 2-Each turn of the page brings a new day and a new mood. Be it excited or joyful, discouraged or confused, the little girl featured here has a litany of reasons to back up her ever-changing attitude. "Today I am cranky so nothing seems right. I have diarrhea and broke my new kite. Mom dyed her hair orange. My dad shaved his beard. My tooth came in crooked. This family is weird." The text is connected by its rhyme rather than its reason. There is so much unrelated jabber that the ideas become almost nonsensical and come across principally as a whine fest. The book does, however, show that "whatever I'm feeling inside is okay!" All of the moods are taken in stride with no judgments made. The emotions are childlike and their visual presentation is exuberant. The watercolor illustrations are splashy and expressive, but at times overpowering. Their loosely focused patchwork of color with little white space to rest the eye brings a busy confusion to the page, adding to the jumbled emotional roller coaster of the text.-Martha Topol, Traverse Area District Library, Traverse City, MI
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