Jamie Lee Curtis Book:

		List Price: $16.99		Publisher: HarperCollins Salesrank: 16652 Released: September 17, 2002
		Our Price: $7.25
		Used Price: $0.01
		Media: Hardcover

Editorial Review:

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. Like the duo's first New York Times best-seller, Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day, this is an inspired book to rejoice in and share. I'm Gonna Like Me will have kids letting off some self-esteem in no time!

Description of I'm Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem:
Actor Jamie Lee Curtis and winsome illustrator Laura Cornell continue their successful collaboration (Today I Feel Silly, When I Was Little, et al.) with this paean to poise and self-assurance, I'm Gonna Like Me.

The duo sets out to "let off a little self-esteem" by following a seriously self-actualized (and gratifyingly quirky) boy and girl throughout their day on alternating pages. The kids take turns carrying the lines, often switching off midsentence, to describe exactly how and why "I'm gonna like me." (Girl: "I'm gonna like me / when I'm called on to stand. / I know all my letters / like the back of my hand." Boy: "I'm gonna like me / when my answer is wrong, / like thinking my ruler / was ten inches long.") The call and response continues through the action-packed day, as the kids get up, go to school, have lunch, go to a birthday party, etc., until they finally get tucked in--so no opportunity for building self-esteem gets overlooked.

Young readers will like Curtis's words and the rhythmic repetition, but it's Cornell's scribbling, reminiscent of the New Yorker's Roz Chast, that makes the book stand out. From an imagined fashion-show runway walk (love that snooty fashion press) to a hilarious lunch table spread (got to get some of that "Cup o' Lettuce" and "Pork by the Foot" for your Doris Day lunch box), Cornell fills the book with funny faces and lots of laughs (the best of which might be the girl's pet turtle working out in a cage with a treadmill, next to a book titled "Exercising Your Illegal Turtle"). (Ages 4 to 8) --Paul Hughes

I'm Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem Reviews:
Good
2009-06-12 - Good. I enjoyed it and it had a great message. However, it seemed just a bit over my just-turned-four-year-old's head. Of course he likes himself. He just didn't seem to get what they were talking about. I'll have to drag this one out again later on.


What a wonderful way to build self-esteem.
2009-05-25 - This is a terrific book for children, teaching them to like themselves just they way they are without coming off as preachy. The illustrations are brilliant -- full color on every page. The cadence is catchy, a rhythm that carries the story throughout the entire book.

The vocabulary is simple, but it will be difficult for some younger readers to read themselves, because half of it is written in cursive. Both of my children, ages 5 and 7, enjoy having me read them this book. Even I feel myself in good spirits when I'm done. Fun to read and fun to be read to, an excellent book.


Darling Teaching Book
2009-05-04 - This book is darling. I require "re-readability" with my books. This one sure has it! Oh-and it MUST have a lesson or a laugh. This has a lesson that can be used for years to come:) My kids are 2,2,4 and 6.

Important book
2009-03-04 - Whether or not a child is fast or slow, they have value. This book reinforces that concept by telling the child to like themself despite their strengths or weaknesses.

Builds self esteem!
2009-01-24 - This book is a self esteem builder. I would recommend it to any parent wanting to teach their child that have self worth.