This Is Me

Written by Jamie Lee Curtis · Illustrated by Laura Cornell

A teacher's tale of immigration sparks a question: What would you pack to define yourself?

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32 pages· AD640L

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Bookroo's summary

In a lively classroom, a teacher shares her great-grandmother's journey to a new land with only a small suitcase. She challenges her students to consider: What would you pack to represent your identity? As they ponder this, young readers are invited to fill a pop-up suitcase, exploring what truly matters. This interactive tale of self-discovery and heritage encourages reflection on personal identity and the essence of belonging. What would you choose to carry if you had to leave everything behind?

From the publisher

From the #1 New York Times bestselling creative team of Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell comes a timely picture book about immigration. Raising important identity issues like “Where did we come from?” and “Who are we?” This Is Me is as delightful as it is important, sure to stimulate dinner table conversation.

In This Is Me a teacher tells her class about her great-grandmother’s dislocating journey from home to a new country with nothing but a small suitcase to bring along. And she asks: What would you pack? What are the things you love best? What says “This is me!” With its lively, rhyming language and endearing illustrations, it’s a book to read again and again, imagining the lives of the different characters, finding new details in the art, thinking about what it would be like to move someplace completely different.

It’s an interactive book, too: Tucked into the back cover is a sturdy pop-up suitcase. And as a younger reader fills the suitcase, he or she learns a lot about what really matters: Now YOU take this case/ and imagine it’s true,/ that you’re leaving and needing/ to choose what says YOU.

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