Jamie Lee Curtis is a moody actor. She is the author of When I Was
Little: A Four-Year-Old's Memoir of Her Youth and Tell Me Again
About the Night I Was Born. Jamie lives in California with her fly
fisherman husband, Christopher Guest, her dancing daughter, Annie,
and her ball-playing boy, Tom.
Laura Cornell is the illustrator of Jamie Lee Curtis's When I Was
Little: A Four-Year-Old's Memoir of Her Youth and Tell Me Again
About the Night I Was Born, as well as Annie Bananie by Leah
Komaiko. Born and raised in California, she lives in New York City
with her happy daughter, Lilly, and their two cats. Laura has
closet moods.
K-Gr 2-"Where do balloons go when you let them go free?" That's the question explored by this child narrator. All kinds of possibilities are considered: Do they catch cold? Get married? Correspond? And the dangers must be considered: wires, trees, tall buildings, balloon-twisting clowns, and balloon-chasing dogs, not to mention the perils of heat from the sun. And just how far do they go? While there are no definite answers to all this speculation, the fun is in the wondering ("Do they tango with airplanes? Or cha-cha with birds?") and in the whimsical cartoon art that raises the prospects to new heights. Combining small vignettes with double-page spreads and even a four-page foldout, Cornell uses lush watercolors and lots of lettering on unconventionally shaped balloons and vehicles to add plenty of visual humor. The illustrations are riotously colorful, textured, and jam packed with details that extend the basic idea. A lighthearted romp to pore over and enjoy.-Marie Orlando, Suffolk Cooperative Library System, Bellport, NY Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
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