Back at school, some kids tease Camilla for openly eating lima beans-but she doesn’t care. In a wonderfully illustrated book, a little girl is so concerned with everyone's opinion of her that she stops being herself and spontaneously becomes whatever anyone calls her, whether purple polka-dotted or as striped as the flag. Eventually, a wise woman offers Camilla some lima beans, and when Camilla finally eats them she returns to normal. When Camilla goes home many doctors come to see her, but none are able to solve her problem: her skin and body keep turning into whatever the people in the room happen to be talking about. When Camilla comforms for the sake of fitting in, she gets stricken with the stripes. Her entire body is covered with very bright stripes! When she goes to school, Camilla’s body keeps changing: during the Pledge of Allegiance, her skin develops red, white and blue stars and stripes, and when the other kids yell “polka-dot,” her skin breaks out in polka-dots. A hilarious and brilliant story for young readers. On the first day of school, as Camilla struggles to find just the right outfit, she suddenly develops a “bad case of stripes”. ![]() ![]() Adapted from the original text, A Bad Case of Stripes by David. Plot Summary: Camilla cares very much about what her classmates think of her-so much so that she pretends that she doesn’t like one of her favorite foods, lima beans, because the other kids in her school hate lima beans. Adapted from the original text, A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon, Scholastic Books, Inc. A Bad Case of Stripes Author: David Shannon
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