When I Was Little: A Four-Year-Old's Memoir of Her Youth by Jamie Lee Curtis is memoir book about a little girl. Jaime Lee Curtis captures a little girl's simple, childlike celebration of herself, as she looks back on her childhood from the lofty height of four and a half years (“Scholastic”, 2017). The genre of this book is fiction and memoir. This book was illustrated by Laura Cornell and together with her exuberant art, When I was Little: A Four-Year-Old's Memoir of Her Youth is a spirited view of growing up. One motivational activity that teacher can do with this book , is to have the student explain on paper what they learned about the little girl after reading this book. This book is way for teachers to see if they payed attention to