Category: Making Friends"What we have here is a bad case of stripes. One of the worst I've ever seen!"Camilla Cream loves lima beans, but she never eats them. Why? Because the other kids in her school don't like them. And Camilla Cream is very, very worried about what other people think of her. In fact, she's so worried that she's about to break out in...a bad case of stripes!"Shannon's story is a good poke in the eye of conformity...and his empathetic, vivid artwork keeps perfect pace with the tale."-Kirkus Reviews, starred review.
The story of Ben is fiction, but it could be the story of morethan one jazz musician who grew up in the twenties. Using theart-deco style of the period, Rachel Isadora not only captures thepoignancy and yearning of a youthful talent, but in page after pageof striking art seems to convey the very sound of music.
In this classic book, a winsome, winning inchworm is proud ofhis ability to measure anything under the sun.