CM Magazine: When I Was Little: A Four-Year-Old's Memoir of Her Youth.

________________ CM . . . . Volume V Number 11 . . . . January 29, 1999

When I Was Little: A Four-Year-Old's Memoir of Her Youth.

Jamie Lee Curtis. Illustrated by Laura Cornell.
Richmond Hill, ON: Scholastic Canada, 1998.
29 pp., pbk., $6.99.
ISBN 0-590-12471-4.

Subject Headings:
Babies-Fiction.
Growth-Fiction.

Preschool - grade 2 / Ages 2 - 7.
Review by Joan Payzant.

**** /4

excerpt:

When I was little I spilled a lot. My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.
When I was little I ate goo and yucky stuff. Now I eat pizza and noodles and fruit and Chee-tos.

Well-known actress Jamie Lee Curtis and illustrator Laura Cornell who have collaborated on When I Was Little make a good team, each with superb imaginations. The story's narrator is a four-year-old girl who is remembering what her life was like when she was a baby, or, at any rate, much younger, and she contrasts that time with her life today. The book is filled with ideas that will appeal to today's children and includes illustrations that fill each page - no margins at all. The artist has added dozens of humourous little touches on every page of her light-hearted interpretations of the text. Children will have fun adding their own memories of when they were little, with illustrations as well.

Recommended.

Joan Payzant is a retired teacher-librarian living in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

To comment on this title or this review, send mail to cm@umanitoba.ca.

Published by
The Manitoba Library Association
ISSN 1201-9364

TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR THIS ISSUE - JANUARY 29, 1999.