In her first book, Curtis capitalizes on the notion that kids love hearing about themselves as babies and takes it one delicious step further by having a four-year-old tell on herself. In a playful first-person narrative, the sprightly young miss describes the many ways she has left babyhood behind: no more silly hair or wearing floaties in the pool, no more eating goo and yucky stuff. In keeping with the lively text, the watercolor illustrations are a congenial, colorful scramble, with many freewheeling, double-page spreads showing the little girl as both baby and preschooler. Despite the confusion this occasionally causes, the artwork's good humor perfectly matches the jaunty air of the words and beautifully captures the narrator, naughty and nice, happy and proud. (Reviewed Oct. 1, 1993)

Bright and busy illustrations cover each page of this amusing picture book. The heroine, at age four, has painted toenails and fingernails, eats pizza, and goes to nursery school. Babies, on the other hand, eat 'goo,' cry a lot, and sleep in a crib. On each page, the illustrations cleverly show the differences. A dandy book for the just-before-school age.

A winsome, upbeat work,'' said PW, whose collaboratorsevoke a healthy child's proud sense of self.'' Ages 4-8. (Sept.)