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Curtis, Jamie Lee

It's Hard to Be Five: Learning How to Work My Control Panel

40 pp. | HarperCollins/Cotler | September, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-06-008095-7 $$16.99 | Library ISBN 0-06-008096-5 $$17.89
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Laura Cornell. "It's hard fun to be five" is the final consensus of the young narrator, having run through the pros (more independence, more self-control) and cons (lots of changes, grownups' expectations) of being his age. Though Curtis's rhyming text is choppy and unfocused at times, it's an upbeat and fairly astute synopsis of a five-year-old's behavior, complemented by Cornell's scrappy, humorous color cartoons.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann

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