She enjoys being different and never has stripes again. Camilla is successfully reverted to a human and continues to eat lima beans although her friends consider her strange for liking them (and for her bow being covered in stripes), she doesn't even care a bit. Camilla is afraid to admit her willingness to eat them at first, but after realizing that this could be her only hope of being cured, she allows the old woman to feed her them. Finally, she melts and merges into her room after an environmental therapist tells her to “become one with the room”.įinally, an old lady tells her to eat some lima beans. She even has viruses, bacteria, and fungus colonies grow on her body after the community's expert scientists discuss these as a possible cause to her situation while examining her. She turns into a pill after being given one and grows roots, berries, crystals, feathers, and a long furry tail after receiving different medicine. The principal sends her home as she is proving to be a distraction, and calls her parents to keep Camilla home from school till her symptoms wear off.Īt home, Camilla goes through a number of increasingly preposterous metamorphoses. But when she does the next day, most of the other children tease her and some of the other children call out colors and patterns which cause the colors on her skin to shift around. Bumble, determines that Camilla is well enough to attend school tomorrow. Shannons bestsellers include A Bad Case of Stripes, Duck on a Bike, and Too Many Toys.
On the first day of school, she wakes up to discover thick, solid-colored stripes all over her body. David Shannon is the internationally acclaimed author and illustrator of thirty-five books for children, including No, David, a Caldecott Honor Book and his second New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year, and four more David picture books.
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