Jamie Lee Curtis: Actress and Children’s Books Author

Jamie Lee Curtis, Courtesy of HarperCollins

Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell have just launched their latest book, the eighth for this dynamic duo, Big Words for Little People.

Most people know Jamie Lee Curtis as the actress in movies such as “A Fish Called Wanda”, “True Lies”, and “Freaky Friday”, just to name a few.  However, when Jamie Lee Curtis became a mother, she made some changes to her lifestyle and this meant not traveling far away from her family to shoot movies.  Curtis told More Magazine in an interview, “This is a time in my life to focus almost exclusively on Tom [her son]. He deserves it. I deserve it. Our family deserves it.”

Tom, her son has inspired the themes and ideas behind many of her books.  Her latest, Big Words for Little People gives children tools to communicate situations they find themselves in everyday with grown-up words.  Persevere, Responsibility, and Consequence are three examples of the many grown-up words in the book.  Children of all ages will have fun pronouncing them and learning their meaning through the easy to understand situations and the illustrations that depict them.

Other best sellers by team Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell include It’s Hard to Be Five, Is There Really a Human Race, and Today I Feel Silly, among others.

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