Parents need to know that This Is Me: A Story of Who We Are and Where We Came From is the 11th collaboration by best-selling author-illustrator team Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell (Today I Feel Silly). Here, Curtis piggybacks on a popular classroom project: packing a single suitcase with what your ancestors might've brought to America. So the book has a natural curriculum tie-in and dovetails with timely, hot-topic conversations about immigration. Cornell's bright watercolors are always a pleasure, and they depict a diverse class that includes African-Americans, Asians, and Latinos. The message is warmly inclusive -- we all come from somewhere -- and actively involves kids in their own family histories, inviting them to fill up their own suitcases with items that are personally meaningful.
