This book was a wonderful depiction of fantasy, because the girl changes colors due to her lack of consumption of lima beans. She wants to be accepted by her peers, and she feels that not eating her favorite thing, lima beans, will help her be accepted at school. Rather than help her become accepted, this makes her stand out because she catches 'The Stripes' and changes into whatever other people call her. The cure? A nice heap of lima beans from an old lady, but Camilla must come to accept herself as she is first.

This is a wonderful book to read to children that reinforces how it is OK to be different. Not all children are going to look the same or like the same things. This book is funny and has unusual situations that kids can still relate to. ( )

Awesome book that teaches children to be themselves. ( )

A wonderful story about doing what you like regardless of what others think. This lesson illustrates this theme without being preachy. Camilla loves lima beans but she never eats them because she's afraid of what other people will think. Camilla is nervous about the first day of school and when she wakes up for the first day of school she has stripes. Each day she gets worse and no one can help her until she eats a plate of lima beans and changes back. She learns her lesson and after that does not care what other people think if she eats lima beans.

Age Appropriateness: Primary and Intermediate
Genre: Fantasy
Media: Acrylic Paints
Review: This book was a wonderful depiction of fantasy, because the girl changes colors due to her lack of consumption of lima beans. She wants to be accepted by her peers, and she feels that not eating her favorite thing, lima beans, will help her be accepted at school. Rather than help her become accepted, this makes her stand out because she catches "The Stripes" and changes into whatever other people call her. The cure? A nice heap of lima beans from an old lady, but Camilla must come to accept herself as she is first.
Character Analysis: Camilla is a wonderful example of a protagonist. The students can relate to her want to be accepted by her peers, as well as the struggle she went through on the first day. She did not eat lima beans to prevent others making fun of her, but she was made fun of for a different reason. The moral of the story that she learns is the cure for her sickness, is "to be yourself" and not to conform to the expectations of others. She struggles, and overcomes the issue of individuality, and serves as an inspiration for the readers of the story.

This is an excellent example of modern fantasy, becasue it is the story of a grade school girl who is struck by a mysterious disease where she turns different colors of stripes depending on her environment. The setting is very important in this story as the main character is a grade school student dealing with the peer pressure and or other difficulties being in Elementary School. ( )

Camilla Cream is a little girl who loves to eat lima beans, but doesn't because she wants to fit in with her friends. She comes down with a case of stripes, stars, polka-dots, and anything else one could imagine. Experts are baffled by her condition but, in the end, she does eat lima beans and is cured. This is a wonderful book for discussing differences. It is also available on audio. ( )

Camilla had quit eating the lima beans that she loved very much because she was afraid of being made fun of. She then become covered in stripes and all different types of patterns. The only cure was to eat lima beans, which she did. After that she ate lima beans whenever she wanted whether everyone thought she was weird or not.

Camiila Cream loved lima beans. She loved lima beans but would not eat them becasue she thought people would laugh and make fun of her. She wanted to impress people so she wore the clothes she thought people wanted her to wear and she ate the food that she thought people wanted her to eat. One morning while getting ready for school, Camilla looked in the mirror and noticed she had stripes. Camilla had stripes of all colors but she felt fine. Her friends did tease her at school and the teasing made the stripes worse. This made Camilla feel bad. Her teacher asked that Camilla's parents keep her at home. Her parents called the doctor but none of the doctors could find a cure. Every time a doctor would try to help Camilla, she got worse. She grew branches, fury tails, feathers, berries, crystals, and roots. Doctors had no cure for Camilla. But one day a little old lady stopped by Camilla's house. She gave Camilla lima beans (her favorite) and Camilla became her old self again. The little old lady walked out the front door, into the crowd, and disappeared. Camilla now eats lima beans whenever she wants them.

This is a very powerful story about a girl who loses her identity by caring too much about what others think to the point of her body physically transforming based on what other people tell her. It is an example of modern fantasy in that these changes would not be possible in real life, such as getting stripes, polka dots, or checkeboard print on your skin just from someone saying that. However, the story contains a girl that we can all relate to to some extent and so we do still understand the story and can be moved by its message.

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Camilla Cream loves lima beans, but she is so afraid to be different from her peers that she refuses to eat any. But when the first day of school arrives, there is a major problem––Camilla is covered in stripes! Suddenly her worries are much greater than what she is going to wear. At school, each time someone mentions a new pattern, Camilla's body becomes covered in that design. All the specialists visit her home, but after a few days of research, an old woman discovers all Camilla really needs is to be herself...she needs her lima beans. This is an excellent story for children to realize that they are all unique and you are at your best when you act yourself. This website provides some ideas for further activities to do with this story: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons... ( )

I loved the book, "A Bad Case of Stripes." I would read this book to students second through fifth grade. The book begins with a little girl trying to pick out a dress for school. The little girl was so nervous and wanted to look beautiful at school. She said that she wanted to do this so that she could impress her classmates. The little girl did all kinds of things to impress her classmates. She even stoped eating her favorite food because other students laughed at her and said that is was yuck! So the little girl got a bad case of stripes. She even began changing colors and grew a tale. I think this is a wonderful book to read on the first day of school. The moral of the story is to teach children to be there on person. If they love lima beans and someone else doesn't who cares! This also teaches children not to make fun of other students. They will see that it does not make you happy when you are made fun of. ( )

This story follows a young girl named Camilla that is very afraid of going to school. She fears that the students will laugh at her because of her love of lima beans. She is soo worried that she comes down with a bad case of stripes that continually gets worse and worse. Till one day and old lady shows up and gives her the cure-lima beans! Children will love this fun story with fun illustrations!!
http://www.lessonplanet.com/search?ke... This site has lessons plans for David Shannon books! ( )

Camilla Cream is a child who constantly worries about what other people think of her. She is so worried, in fact, that she breaks out in stripes. Unbeknownst to her, the only cure is to eat lima beans. Camilla loves lima beans, but is afraid of what everyone will think if she eats them. After struggling with the stripes for a while, Camilla finally eats lima beans to become normal again and realizes that it should never matter what people think about her. http://www.scholastic.com/titles/auth... is a website that gives descriptions of many of David Shannon's books, as well as provides information about the author. It also gives suggestions of a couple other authors that are similar to David Shannon. This would be a great book to use on the first day of school to discuss self-confidence and being yourself. The text is longer than young grades could pay attention to; therefore, I would read this story to third or fourth grade. This book is extremely creative, imaginative, and fantastic.

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The best illustrations of any children's book I've ever read! I love the use of color. It's truly one of a kind.

Camilla was very concerned about what everyone thought of her. She wanted to fit in so she pretended she hated lima beans just like her friends but really she loved them. She was getting ready for her first day of school and couldn't decide what to wear because she wanted to impress. She all of the sudden came down with the case of the stripes. The doctors couldn't find a cure, in fact the cures were making them worse. Once Camilla learns how to be comfortable with who she is she is cured with lima beans.

David Shannon has once again struck gold with "A Bad Case of Stripes," adding to his canon of unlikely heroes who in the end learn a lesson about being themselves. A great read aloud for children struggling with the contradictory position of individual and group identity. It's also great for parents - unspoken participants in that struggle! ( )

This is a great book about a girl who is worried about what other people think about her. Because Camilla Cream won't eat lima beans because her friends don't like them; she turns into different images all over her skin. Once she eats lima beans again everything goes back to normal. This is a great book for vocabulary. ( )

I thought this book was a wonderful book to read to students. The book had great illustration in it. The illustration were very colorful. THis book can be used for all grades but the lesson that goes with it varries.This book is a great way to get students to think in a creative way. You can make a great lesson out of this book. The lesson would be called Prescription for stripes. The students can be create and make up a prescription in parapgraph form of what they think they should have camelia do to feel better.

This story is about a young girl who was colord stripes. Her colors changed throughout the book. This book would be good to read to any age of elementary students. It can show students that bad things can happen if they let someone else decide who they are.

This book is about Camilla Cream who loves lima beans. She is so obsessed about what others might think of her that she never eats what she loves or wears what she prefers. In the end she learns to be her own person and eat and dress for herself instead of others.

This story takes place the night before school. Camilla goes to be but was fretting because tomorrow was the first day of school. She was worried about what people would think of her. She would not even eat her favorite food in front of her friends because everyone thought lima beans were nasty. She wakes up on the first day of school and was covered in stripes. She went to school and her skin kept changing colors and patterns. This represents how other people’s opinions greatly affected her and made her what they said and thought of her. Finally, she loses her stripes when she realizes it is not important what people think. Overall, I think this is a great book to teach kids how to no let people discourage them from being their true selves. ( )

What a great book!! I would use this book to allow children to see its ok to like things that other children might not like. This is a good book for 1st-2nd grade. The illustrations are great as well!