About the Author

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.

Reviews

K-Gr 3-Curtis writes so very well, in infectious toe-tapping poetic form, of the inner thoughts and worries that children struggle with all too frequently. Here, a boy asks his mother the title question. He continues, "If the race is unfair, will I succeed?" His mother tells her son that it's often better to help others and make the world a better place than to win first place in a foot race. Cornell's ink-and-color wash cartoons are a perfect match to Curtis's lilting text. The detailed spreads will fascinate young readers. For instance, on the page on which the child asks, "-is Dad on my team?" the illustrations show his father, grandad, and a multitude of ancestors back to cavemen. When he worries about making the wrong turn, a maze full of children of different ethnicities is depicted. This book should be enjoyed by the whole human race.-Alice DiNizo, Plainfield Public Schools, NJ Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.