Big Words for Little People

Name: Big Words for Little People
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Jamie Lee Curtis
ISBN: 9780061658235

Author: Jamie Lee Curtis

Narrator: Jamie Lee Curtis

Unabridged: 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 09/09/2008

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Humor

Synopsis

Big Words for Little People, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jamie Lee Curtis, helps little people communicate in a big person's world. With grown-up words like cooperate, respect, patience, and considerate, a large, boisterous family celebrates the power of language and discovers that words—big or little—are the bridge that connects us all.I know some Big Words.
I'll teach them to you.
Although you are small,
you can use Big Words too.Big Words aren't scary.
They're big fun to learn.
I was taught once
and now it's your turn.

About Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis has had many firsts: her first (and only) marriage to Christopher Guest, her first time holding her children, Annie and Tom, her first time pretending to be a customer in an episode of Quincy, and her first time she wrote words that became her first book. She lives in Los Angeles, the first city she ever lived in, and is always first in line, first to arrive, first to leave, and first to sleep.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marlene on March 08, 2022

"When Dad takes us shopping to buy new shoes, and all of us shout, 'This one I choose!' and the salesman looks angry - he's pretty IRATE - Dad wants us to behave and COOPERATE." (I can relate! I've taken all six of my kids shoe shopping many times, and phew! You really need a good system for that to......more

Goodreads review by Abigail on July 07, 2019

Author Jamie Lee Curtis offers a celebration of words in this rhyming picture-book, which also functions as a confidence booster for young children. "I know some Big Words. / I'll teach them to you. / Although you are small, / you can use Big Words too." So begins the rollicking text, which introduc......more

Goodreads review by Caitlin on June 28, 2017

1. This book introduces children to big words, some of which they may hear in every day rhetoric, but don’t understand. For example, cooperation, consequence, and appropriate. This book not only introduces the word in a sentence and defines it in a kid friendly way, but also gives fun examples of ho......more

Goodreads review by Madeline on September 12, 2018

This book is very clever and fun to read to younger children. It contains "bigger" words, so to speak, that younger children might not know or use in their everyday conversations. The illustrations are very bright, colorful and fun, and really add to the meanings of the words on the pages. This book......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on November 08, 2008

Lots of things to look at in the illustrations! I especially love the curtain dress kit and cobweb collection! Very cute and educational! Plus I love Jamie Lee Curtis!......more