Born Yesterday
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
July 8
Imagine! A day ago I?d never even heard of the world, and suddenly here I am in it. There?s so much to write about?macaroni, Fun World, and a big sister who has it all figured out. Which is why boys adore her. I need to get her attention back on me? and quick. But how? Should I take up sumo wrestling? Stunt flying? All I know how to do is write.
But don?t tell anyone. This diary you?re looking at is TOP SECRET? just for you and me!
Renowned illustrator Simon James brings sweetness and charm to James Solheim?s hilarious diary of a baby?and the result is a one-of-a-kind picture book no one will be expecting!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
As fake memoirs go, this one is a hoot, with Solheim (It's Disgusting and We Ate It!) and James (Baby Brains) adopting the voice of a precocious infant diarist observing his newly discovered world. The narrator is a kinder, gentler version of The Family Guy's Stewie Griffin: If I'd known I was going to be born in public, I'd at least have put on a tank top, he writes. Eight months later, he confidently notes, Finally I have it figured out. Some things are noses, some are taxicabs, and some are Belgians. But most important (both for the story and for the battered egos of readers with new brothers or sisters) the narrator has figured out who's the big Kahuna in the house and it's not Mom or Dad. Describing his kindergarten-age sister as some kind of monkey-bar superstar or something, he also scribbles: Note to myself: Imitate that girl. Just imitate her. James's reportorial watercolor-and-ink cartoons make terrific visual punctuation; he never overplays the jokes, and he may well convince readers that there actually are deep, incisive thoughts lurking behind their new sibling's pudgy, pacifier-sucking face. Ages 3 5.
