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Books with author Jamie Lee Illustrated by Laura Cornell Curtis

  • Today I Feel Silly: And Other Moods That Make My Day

    Jamie Lee Curtis, Laura Cornell

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, July 1, 1998)
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling team of Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell, authors of I’m Gonna Like Me and Where Do Balloons Go?, Today I Feel Silly helps children understand and appreciate their shifting moods.Jamie Lee Curtis's zany and touching verse, paired with Laura Cornell's whimsical and original illustrations, helps kids explore, identify, and, even have fun with their ever-changing moods.Silly, cranky, excited, or sad—everyone has moods that can change each day. And that’s okay! Follow the boisterous, bouncing protagonist as she explores her moods and how they change from day to day.
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  • It's Hard to Be Five: Learning How to Work My Control Panel

    Jamie Lee Curtis, Laura Cornell

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, July 31, 2007)
    Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell, the #1 New York Times bestselling team behind Today I Feel Silly and I'm Gonna Like Me, return with It’s Hard to Be Five, a story of self-control and learning to do your best every day!Learning not to hit? Having to wait your turn? Sitting still? It's hard to be five!But Jamie Lee Curtis's encouraging text and Laura Cornell's playful illustrations make the struggles of self-control a little bit easier and a lot more fun. Kids will laugh in recognition of siblings, classmates, and friends—and maybe even themselves.
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  • Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born

    Jamie Lee Curtis, Laura Cornell

    Paperback (HarperCollins, Aug. 29, 2000)
    Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell, the New York Times bestselling team behind Today I Feel Silly and I’m Gonna Like Me, bring us a tender and funny picture book for every parent and child. Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born is a special celebration of the love and joy an adopted child creates for a family.In asking her parents to tell her again about the night of her birth, a young girl relives a cherished tale she knows by heart. Focusing on the significance of family and love, this a unique and beautiful story about adoption and the importance of a loving family.A beautiful adoption story, Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born also speaks to the universal childhood desire to know more about the excitement, awe, love, and sleeplessness that a new baby brings to a family.Tell me again about the night I was born.Tell me again how you would adopt me and be my parents.Tell me again about the first time you held me in your arms.
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  • This Is Me: A Story of Who We Are and Where We Came From

    Jamie Lee Curtis, Laura Cornell

    Hardcover (Workman Publishing Company, Sept. 20, 2016)
    ***A 2016 National Parenting Product Awards (NAPPA) winner From the #1 New York Times bestselling creative team of Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell comes a timely picture book about immigration. Raising important identity issues like “Where did we come from?” and “Who are we?” This Is Me is as delightful as it is important, sure to stimulate dinner table conversation. In This Is Me a teacher tells her class about her great-grandmother’s dislocating journey from home to a new country with nothing but a small suitcase to bring along. And she asks: What would you pack? What are the things you love best? What says “This is me!” With its lively, rhyming language and endearing illustrations, it’s a book to read again and again, imagining the lives of the different characters, finding new details in the art, thinking about what it would be like to move someplace completely different. It’s an interactive book, too: Tucked into the back cover is a sturdy pop-up suitcase. And as a younger reader fills the suitcase, he or she learns a lot about what really matters: Now YOU take this case/ and imagine it’s true,/ that you’re leaving and needing/ to choose what says YOU.
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  • I'm Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem

    Jamie Lee Curtis, Laura Cornell

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, Aug. 16, 2002)
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling team of Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell, creators of Today I Feel Silly and Where Do Balloons Go?, comes I’m Gonna Like Me, a funny and moving celebration of self-esteem and loving the skin you’re in.Celebrate liking yourself! Through alternating points of view, a girl's and a boy's, Jamie Lee Curtis's triumphant text and Laura Cornell's lively artwork show kids that the key to feeling good is liking yourself because you are you.A book to rejoice in and share, I'm Gonna Like Me will have kids letting off some self-esteem in no time!
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  • Big Words for Little People

    Jamie Lee Curtis, Laura Cornell

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, Sept. 9, 2008)
    Signed by Jamie Lee Curtis! Wonderful find!
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  • When I Was Little: A Four-Year-Old's Memoir of Her Youth

    Jamie Lee Curtis, Laura Cornell

    Paperback (HarperCollins, Sept. 7, 1995)
    “Exuberant—a winsome, upbeat work.” —Publishers WeeklyJamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell perfectly capture a little girl's simple, joyous 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 to share at home or in a classroom, as kids will respond to the exuberant pleasures of growing freedom and independence."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 nursery school. I'm not a baby anymore. I'm me!"
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  • Is There Really a Human Race?

    Jamie Lee Curtis, Laura Cornell

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, Sept. 5, 2006)
    Is there really a human race?Is it going on now all over the place?When did it start?Who said, "Ready, Set, Go"?Did it start on my birthday?I really must know.With these questions, our hero's imagination is off and running. Is the human race an obstacle course? Is it a spirit? Does he get his own lane? Does he get his own coach?Written with Jamie Lee Curtis's humor and heart and illustrated with Laura Cornell's worldly wit, Is There Really a Human Race? Is all about relishing the journey and making good choices along the way—because how we live and how we love is how we learn to make the world a better place, one small step at a time.
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  • This Is Me: A Story of Who We Are and Where We Came From

    Jamie Lee Curtis, Laura Cornell

    eBook (Workman Publishing Company, Sept. 20, 2016)
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling creative team of Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell comes a timely picture book about immigration. Raising important identity issues like “Where did we come from?” and “Who are we?” This Is Me is as delightful as it is important, sure to stimulate dinner table conversation. In This Is Me a teacher tells her class about her great-grandmother’s dislocating journey from home to a new country with nothing but a small suitcase to bring along. And she asks: What would you pack? What are the things you love best? What says “This is me!” With its lively, rhyming language and endearing illustrations, it’s a book to read again and again, imagining the lives of the different characters, finding new details in the art, thinking about what it would be like to move someplace completely different.     
  • Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born

    Jamie Lee Curtis, Laura Cornell

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, July 19, 1996)
    Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell, the New York Times bestselling team behind Today I Feel Silly and I’m Gonna Like Me, bring us a tender and funny picture book for every parent and child. Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born is a special celebration of the love and joy an adopted child creates for a family.In asking her parents to tell her again about the night of her birth, a young girl relives a cherished tale she knows by heart. Focusing on the significance of family and love, this a unique and beautiful story about adoption and the importance of a loving family.A beautiful adoption story, Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born also speaks to the universal childhood desire to know more about the excitement, awe, love, and sleeplessness that a new baby brings to a family.Tell me again about the night I was born.Tell me again how you would adopt me and be my parents.Tell me again about the first time you held me in your arms.
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  • My Mommy Hung the Moon: A Love Story

    Jamie Lee Curtis, Laura Cornell

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, Sept. 7, 2010)
    NEW HARDCOVER WITH LIKE NEW DUST JACKET. SHIPS FROM WA- USPS. EXPEDITED SHIPPING AVAILABLE. My mommy hung the moon. She tied it with string. My mommy's good at EVERYTHING. The ninth children's book by the #1 New York Times best-selling team of Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell is a celebration of unconditional love between mother and child. Mommy is the best at everything: Not only does she carpool, untangle kites, steal bases, and bake cookies, she also seems to light up the sun with her love. Written straight from the heart and illustrated with tender hilarity, My Mommy Hung the Moon: A Love Story is a keepsake that defines the magical relationship a mother has with her son or daughter. So grab the little one you love, and rejoice as the ordinary moments of everyday life become extraordinary because of the magic of mother love. Family; Fiction; Juvenile Fiction; Mothers; Parents; Stories in rhyme
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  • My Brave Year of Firsts: Tries, Sighs, and High Fives

    Jamie Lee Curtis, Laura Cornell

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, Sept. 4, 2012)
    The first time I rode a two-wheeler alone, I crashed and my mom filmed it on her iPhone. . . . The tenth children's book by the #1 New York Times bestselling team of Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell celebrates the extraordinary, everyday bravery of trying new things for the very first time. Whether Frankie's learning to ride a bike, love her first dog, make new friends (her very first twins), or help out her dad, she discovers that trying new things is how she grows—and that being brave enough to do so is what growing up is all about.
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