Description: The #1 national bestselling team behind "It's Hard to Be Five" returns with the eighth book in the Books to Grow By series. Little ones will have big fun as Curtis and Cornell give them the language of good values as they learn big words in this hilarious and boisterous book. Full color.

Children's Literature Review: In their eighth book together, Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell make another big splash in the world of children's literature. This is a wonderful example of how children can use big words to communicate and to demonstrate their intelligence. The book begins, "I know some Big Words./I'll teach them to you./Although you are small,/you can use Big Words too." With humorous text and illustrations, this dynamic writer and illustrator team show that using big words (when appropriate) can be an empowering experience for children; it's a way to develop confidence and facility with language. Through fun mini-poems, Curtis teaches readers words such as privacy, impossible, stupendous, appropriate, disgusting, understand, persevere, and different in contexts that are fun and easily understood by young children. For instance, one rhyme--for the word "understand"--depicts a group of students in a circle playing along with the statement, "You understand/cows make milk and not juice./That you don'...

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