![]() ![]() In other news, I got a lovely note and a blog shout-out from the amazing Zoe Toft of Playing By The Book. Hello everyone We hope you are all excited for A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon Leanna and I have put together a bunch of fun activities and crafts for the little ones. if you don't eat your veggies, you'll turn stripey and grow a tail?) may be a bit much for those with active imaginations. If your little one scares easily - or even if they don't - you may want to read through it first and make sure it's appropriate for their maturity level. Firstly, it's supposed to be for ages 4-8, but it's awfully wordy for younger kids, and I'm not sure they'd sit still through the whole thing. It takes a bad case of stripes, cured only by being. I'm going to recommend it to you, because it's a cute story and a lot of people really like it, but I'm going to add a few caveats. Camilla fears being different and even denies eating her favorite food, lima beans, in order to fit in. So popular, in fact, that it was checked out the first time she told me about it, and I had to get it another day. This book was recommended to me by a librarian friend of mine (thanks, Libby!), who told me that this book is really popular with her patrons. Drain.Ģ) Add a small pat of butter per serving of beans - just enough to coat the beans when it's melted. Drain.ġ) Pour frozen beans into a small saucepan with a splash of water (about 1/4 cup per cup of beans) and cook on medium-low heat for 5 to 7 minutes, until heated through. Here's how I make mine:ġ) Pour frozen beans into a microwave safe bowl with a splash of water (about 1/4 cup per cup of beans). And since I was making some to go with dinner anyway, I thought I'd dedicate them to Camilla. ![]() It's not something that you tell people in polite company, but it's true. I'm going to make a confession right now: like Camilla, I love lima beans. Will things ever get better for her? Or is the real problem that she won't show her true colors because she cares so much what everyone else thinks? When specialists give her pills to clear things up, she turns into a giant capsule. Things just keep getting worse for poor Camilla she can't help but be influenced by 100 different things. When she looks in the mirror to judge her latest outfit, Camilla is shocked - she's come down with a case of stripes! Oh, no! And after the doctor clears her to go to school, stripes and all, she finds out that she's even more impressionable than she thought: the pledge of allegiance made her break out in stars! And upon recommendations from her classmates, she's also covered in a checkerboard pattern. Camilla Cream wants to fit in, so she conforms, denying herself the things she craves-lima beans, for example-if. In fact, she tries on 42 outfits for the first day of school, just trying to find the perfect one (too bad none of them were quite right). A Bad Case Of Stripes by David Shannon tells the story of Camilla Cream, who loved lima beans, but never ate them, because everyone knows that lima beans are yucky, and if there's anything that Camilla wants out of life, it's to be accepted. ![]()
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