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A Bad Case of Stripes
A Bad Case of Stripes is a children's book by David Shannon published in 1998 by Blue Sky Press, a division of Scholastic Press.
Plot summary.
The main character is a girl named Camilla Cream who loves lima beans but doesn't want to eat them because her friends dislike them and she wants to be just like them.
One day she wakes up to discover thick, solid-colored stripes all over her body. Dr. Bumble determines that Camilla is well enough to
feed her them. Camilla is successfully transformed back into a human and continues to eat lima beans; although her friends consider her strange for liking them, she enjoys being different.
Themes.
"A Bad Case of Stripes" discusses ethics and metaphysics, by highlighting self-perception, identity, peer-pressure, and bullying.
Reception.
Kirkus Reviews found that "Shannon's story is a good poke in the eye of conformity--imaginative, vibrant, and at times good and spooky--and his