This is Me

Author: Jamie Lee Curtis

Illustrator: Laura Cornell

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Grade level: K-3

This book starts out with a teacher's great-grandmother who left er family and friends to cross the sea. She had no say and sadly she would have to pack only the things that she loves and unfortunately she will have to leave all of the rest at home. She then asks the class what would they take. It then goes through different students in the class talking about what they would take with them if they were to travel. What they would take in order to best represent them on the trip. Some would take their punk rocker barbie, nintendo DS, USA passport, signed harry potter book, and much more. Who you all are isn't just what you've got but its what you learn and what you're taught is who you become. In the end it asks what the reader would take to say "hey this is me!"

This book can be used to talk about the importance of history. It can also be used to highlight the importance of who we are based on what we have done. 

The illustrations in this are very bright and colorful. The expressions on the characters faces are clear to the emotions that they are feeling in relationship to the text. There is a popup case on the last page that adds a fun little surprise for the readers when they are thinking about what they are going to bring in their case to represent themselves.