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Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods That Make My Day Book Review By: Rachel Gause

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__**Summary:**__ A curly-headed little girl shows off her many moods. The book’s illustrations and rhyming text are playful exposing a comfortable format for discussing emotions with younger children. At the end of the book, a cardboard face with a twirling disk allows kids to adjust eyes and mouth to express whatever mood they're feeling.
 * ♣ Author and Illustrator: Jaime Lee Curtis, Laura Cornell
 * ♣ Publisher: HarperCollins; 1st edition
 * ♣ Publication Date: July 31, 2007
 * ♣ Pages: 40
 * ♣ Age range: 4-8 years
 * ♣ ISBN-13: 978-0060245603

__**Review:**__ //Today I Feel Silly// has been one of my favorite books growing up. The way Curtis uses her corky rhyming and words captures young readers attention, she uses short snap shots, which keep the readers attention. Besides her great writing, the illustrations were an immediate attraction to the eye, which we can congratulate Cornell for. There seems to be a lot going on in each picture, but that is the beauty of it. Each time reading this story over and over there seemed to always be something new to see that I didn’t before. After enjoying this book throughout my childhood I’ve had the joy of reading this book to my nieces and watching them enjoy it just as much.

__**Analysis of a Literary Element:**__

One of the most intriguing aspects about Jamie Curtis’s book //Today I Feel Silly// is how well her illustrations and rhyming coincide with each other. The illustrations by Cornell relate to the text and are packed with detail grasping the child imagination. I have noticed that with the amount of detail that was carefully printed, children are able to continuously read and find new details that they might have not seen before. With these details the reader is able to see what the author is trying to say without even having to read the sentence, which opens up the age range to younger audiences along with older. Without the illustration the story would fall apart because there would have to be a great deal of “telling” then “showing” which only lessens the attention grasping of the audience.

__**About the Author:**__ Jamie Lee Curtis is the author of eight best-selling children's books that address normal childhood subjects and life lessons in a playful, relaxed way. Jamie finds the inspiration for her writing all around her, her own children, her godchildren and in her own life. Her first book, When I Was Little, was brought upon by her four-year-old daughter's boast that she was no longer "little." Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born, a celebration of adoption and the start of a new family, was inspired by the adoption of her own children. And as an author, of course Curtis loves words and knows that words have power. Her latest book, Big Words for Little People, gives young children the understanding and power of their own "big words." With their great friendship, Laura Cornell illustrates all of Curtis’s best-selling picture books.

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