Summary: A Bad Case Of Strips

For this assignment, I chose to analyze a children’s book. “A Bad Case of Stripes,” by David Shannon. This book is about a girl named Camilla Cream, who loves to eat lima beans but does not want to eat them because all of her friends disliked the taste of lima beans. Camilla wanted to fit in and is very worried about others opinions of her. Her insecurity disguises itself by turning her body from head to toe into rainbow stripes. The theme of this to teach and bring awareness of self-consciousness. Children are learning to be themselves and to be comfortable in your own skin. This book distributes with the issue of identity, shown in various ways. When Camila attends school the next day after being checked out by her doctor, she and her classmates realize that whatever they say to her, she becomes the pattern. When she attends school, and they are singing the Pledge of Allegiance, red and white stripes, blue covered from head to toe and white stars appeared on her skin. Her body is trying to …show more content…
“A Bad Case of the Stripes” is a fantasy and fiction book with vivid colorful illustrations for the readers to enjoy. David Shannon uses figurative language to refer how the main character looks and how her body was changing drastically based on comments said. Some examples are “She looked like a rainbow” or “ Poor Camilla was changing faster than you can change channels on a T.V.” He writes in a creative way, in order for his story to be exciting and imaginative. Every illustration on every page was detailed with the text. The vocabulary used are sophisticated and complex. Bigger words that have the same meanings are written in the story such as “fret” means “to be worried.” This book is great for teaching uniqueness and individuality. Shannon shows children that it is okay to be you. It also helps children in seeing the cautionary sign of losing who they are to be like everyone