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Summary: Something every child could relate to!
Review: I bought this book for my 1yr old daughter and we love it. The rhymes are fun, the pictures adorable and the text is perfect. We now have all of Jamie Lee Curtis' books.
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Summary: No car seat for a 4 year old!?!?!?
Review: I really like the book, EXCEPT the page that reads "when I was little I rode in a baby car seat. Now I ride like a grown-up..." Most state require by law that a child ride in child-seat until they are 4 or older....our state requires it until a child is 6 years old. No 4 year old should ride in a car "like a grown up". I have to change the words when we get to that part.
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Summary: Also Good for Older Kids
Review: My 9-year-old daughter enjoyed this book more than I've seen her enjoy any other book. It brought back a lot of memories for her. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Wonderful creative book
Review: My three year old daughter enjoys this book as much as her mother. This book is not only cleverly written, but delightfully illustrated. After we bought this book and read it and read it, we ordered all of the other books written by Jamie Lee Curtis. Quite frankly, I didn't know she had it in her!!! Great job Mrs. Curtis!! Thanks for sharing your talent.
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Summary: A delight to read to youngsters
Review: The combination of delightful illustrations and simple words evoking the mind of a child make this book, like all of Curtis' creations, a pleasure to read to youngsters and to get fun reactions about what and who they think they were as babies. I'm glad that a granny got a place in the book too, catching the little grandchild at the bottom of a long slide. That's me today. I like how Curtis weaved in the importance of reading to children at night, and I vote for her book to be one of the choices. Her love as a mother and understanding of children shine through the pages.Gisela Gasper Fitzgerald, author of ADOPTION: An Open, Semi-Open or Closed Practice?
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Summary: Main complaint: Where's the dad??
Review: The first thing my husband said after reading the book to our daughter is, "Where is the dad?" or even the grandfather for that matter. There are references to mommy and grandma. I don't know the history of Jamie Lee Curtis. Perhaps she didn't have a father figure present growing up, which certainly would explain why there are no memories to explore.
In regards to the editorial review that they "slip in implicit endorsements of specific cereals and junk foods (Cap'n Crunch, Chee-tos, Animal Crackers)", this didn't bother me. I would guess that most people have a specific image or memory in their head about when they ate Cheetos, Fritos, Cheerios, oreo cookies, or whatever. It's the beauty of our memory of being 4-1/2 years old. The watercolor illustrations are beautiful. There is so much detail that they tell a story themselves. (And at least pictures exist of male role models). As for the book overall, my daughter loves it, and that's what is most important.
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Summary: For once it's not about the baby!
Review: 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.
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Summary: Not as good as expected
Review: This book was not what I expected. I recently ordered the It's hard to be five book and loved it completely. But this best thing about this book is the colorful illustrations. My 4 year old daughter didn't much care about the words, she just wanted to look at the pictures. I was very dissapointed with this.
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Summary: A real treat
Review: 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.
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