![]() Set in middle-class America, this very funny tale speaks to the challenge many kids face in choosing to act independently.-Carolyn Noah, Central Mass. ![]() Despite probing by doctors and experts, it takes an old woman who was just as plump and sweet as a strawberry to help Camilla discover her true colors. For example, in one double-page spread the Creams are besieged by the media including a crew from station WCKO. Bordered pages barely contain the energy of the artwork close-ups emphasize the remarkable characters that inhabit the tale. Shannon's exaggerated, surreal, full-color illustrations take advantage of shadow, light, and shifting perspective to show the girl's plight. The solution: lima beans, loved by Camilla, but disdained for fear they'll promote unpopularity with her classmates. ![]() First stripes, then stars and stripes, and finally anything anyone suggests (including tree limbs, feathers, and a tail) appear vividly all over her body. School Library Journal - K-Gr 2-A highly original moral tale acquires mythic proportions when Camilla Cream worries too much about what others think of her and tries desperately to please everyone. ![]() Copyright 1998 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. The exaggerated, solid, puppet-like characters who encounter Camilla’s chameleon ways are comically appropriate to this droll take on being true to oneself, and the anticipated cure (lima beans) provides everyone with much-needed relief from Camilla’s Technicolor trauma. Kids will giggle and gasp at the story of peer pressure run amok as one zany scene outdoes the other (Camilla’s transformation into her bedroom, with mattresses for lips, is uniquely strange and very funny). ‘Breathe deeply, and become one with your room.’ ‘I wish you hadn’t said that,’ Camilla groaned”). Initially she breaks out in rainbow stripes (but it gets weirder) and finally ends up turning into whatever the people around her suggest (“An Environmental Therapist claimed she could cure Camilla. Things quickly take an odd turn when Camilla gets a really weird disease. Camilla Cream “was always worried about what other people thought of her.” She secretly loves lima beans and doesn’t want her food fetish to ruin her popularity with her lima-bean-hating friends. The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (03/98)īulletin for the Center. Download a Teacher's Guide Accelerated Reader Information:Ĭommon Core Standards Grade K → Reading → RL Literature → K.RL Key Ideas & Details Grade K → Reading → RL Literature → K.RL Craft & Structure Grade K → Reading → RL Literature → K.RL Integration of Knowledge & Ideas Grade 1 → Reading → RL Reading Literature → 1.RL Key Ideas & Details Grade 1 → Reading → RL Reading Literature → 1.RL Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity Grade 2 → Reading → RL Reading Literature → 2.RL Key Ideas & Details Grade 2 → Reading → RL Reading Literature → 2.RL Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity Grade 2 → Reading → CCR College & Career Readiness Anchor Standards fo Grade 3 → Reading → RL Literature → 3.RL Key Ideas & Details Grade 3 → Reading → RL Literature → 3.RL Integration & Knowledge of Ideas Reviews: In order to ensure her popularity, Camilla Cream always does what is expected, until the day arrives when she no longer recognizes herself.
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