![]() In other news, I got a lovely note and a blog shout-out from the amazing Zoe Toft of Playing By The Book. 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. 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. 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. It was the very first day of school, and she couldn’t decide what to wear. Today she was fretting even more than usual. Camilla always worried about what other people thought of her. All of her friends hated lima beans, and she wanted to fit in. 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. BAD CASE OF THE STRIPES By David Shannon Camilla Cream loved lima beans. 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). However, she doesnt want to eat them because her friends dislike them and. And since I was making some to go with dinner anyway, I thought I'd dedicate them to Camilla. The main character is a girl named Camilla Cream who secretly loves lima beans. ![]() 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. 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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