![]() ![]() The setting of the story isn't ever specifically stated. There is an older grandmotherly women at the end of the story who comes up with an unlikely and simple cure. All the experts take turns in trying to diagnose and remedy the poor little girl. The principal eventually gets involved by sending Camilla out of her school because she is a distraction to the other students. Eventually the cure for Camilla’s ailment is from an unlikely source and one that Camilla both loves and hates. Of course she can’t go to school now because surely being different colors is far from fitting in with other students. Her parents enlist several doctors to find the cause and cure for this odd illness which just leads to more and more problems from giant pills to a room with a face. She looks in the mirror before school, and suddenly has different colored stripes all over her body. She absolutely loves to eat lima beans but refuses to eat any because everyone else thinks they are gross and she doesn’t want to be considered weird to her classmates. Therefore she tries on 42 different outfits of all colors and patterns. She doesn't know what to wear on the first day of school, because she is afraid of being judged by the other kids in her school. In this book, Camilla Cream is extremely worried about fitting in. The blend of fantasy and reality make the story really successful and entertaining. Obviously there is no such disease that turns one different colors and patterns or into rooms or into a huge pill. The fantasy aspect comes in when Camilla starts turning colors and having an illness referred to as the “stripes”. These are aspects that give the story a grounding aspect that the reader can relate to. She worries about fitting in with kids her age. For example, Camilla Cream looks like an average elementary aged student with realistic looking parents, home and school. I would place A Bad Case of Stripes in the fiction and fantasy genre, but it also has aspects of reality mixed within the plot and illustrations. This book is a picture book for children and the illustrations are just as important as the text. Challenge your child to guess the pattern.A Bad Case of Stripes is written and illustrated by David Shannon. Use the strips to make a pattern (such as red, red, green or blue, yellow, red). Cut different colors of construction paper into strips. ![]() With your child, look through magazines and newspapers for pictures of stripes. Of course not! But there are many other places you might find stripes - on animals, on clothing, and even on wallpaper. Ask your child if she's ever heard of a striped person.(When she follows the motto "Be yourself" and is no longer worried what other kids will think when they find out she likes lima beans, her stripes disappear.) ![]() After you finish reading, invite your child to guess why eating lima beans got rid of Camilla's stripes.After finishing part of the book, encourage your child to guess what happens next in the book. Because the book is somewhat long, you might want to read it over the course of two nights.Her predicament gets worse as the day goes on and is only cured when she admits that she likes lima beans. In A Bad Case of Stripes the main character wakes up one day to find her skin covered in stripes. ![]()
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