A Bad Case of Stripes
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4.5 • 221 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
From the Caldecott Honor-winning and bestselling picture book creator David Shannon, comes a fun story about finding courage and staying true to yourself!
"What we have here is a bad case of stripes. One of the worst I've ever seen!"
Camilla Cream loves lima beans, but she never eats them. Why? Because the other kids in her school don't like them. And Camilla Cream is very, very worried about what other people think of her. In fact, she's so worried that she's about to break out in... a bad case of stripes!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
On this disturbing book's striking dust jacket, a miserable Betty-Boop-like girl, completely covered with bright bands of color, lies in bed with a thermometer dangling from her mouth. The rainbow-hued victim is Camilla Cream, sent home from school after some startling transformations: "when her class said the Pledge of Allegiance, she turned red, white, and blue, and she broke out in stars!" Scientists and healers cannot help her, for after visits from "an old medicine man, a guru, and even a veterinarian... she sprouted roots and berries and crystals and feathers and a long furry tail." The paintings are technically superb but viscerally troubling--especially this image of her sitting in front of the TV with twigs and spots and fur protruding from her. The doe-eyed girl changes her stripes at anyone's command, and only nonconformity can save her. When she finally admits her unspeakable secret--she loves lima beans--she is cured. Shannon (How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball) juggles dark humor and an anti-peer-pressure message. As her condition worsens, Camilla becomes monstrous, ultimately merging with the walls of her room. The hallucinatory images are eye-popping but oppressive, and the finale--with Camilla restored to her bean-eating self--brings a sigh of relief. However, the grotesque images of an ill Camilla may continue to haunt children long after the cover is closed. Ages 5-9.
Customer Reviews
It’s an amazing story but...
I think this is a great book and it tells kids to not be afraid to show what they like. But when I was younger I was DEAD afraid of that book and it gave me nightmares and bad visions. I have heard a lot of other people saying the same thing. Maybe you could have made the book a little less disturbing and scary
Childhood memories !🌈
I use 🌥️to love 💗 this book 🌻when I was 🌻a 🌸kid (STILL DO) i use 👍🏻to read it over and over 💐again 🦋I just love ⭐️the 🍄way 🌷the ✨author made the character 🪷so fun and colorful 🍓(🍁I KNOW 🌲SOME 🍃PEOPLE ⚡️WERE 🌊SCARED OF THIS BOOK 📚WHEN THEY WERE KIDS) (🍒but its 🫐not even 🍏that scary?🤷♀️) (🥐🧇🍳🍞🍥🍡🍧🍬🍿🍭🍪🍙🍣🍯🧃🧋🍵) //Sorry I just really love putting emoji’s Lol//😳
Throwback
definitely a trippy book re reading it as a adult.