However, the grotesque images of an ill Camilla may continue to haunt children long after the cover is closed. The hallucinatory images are eye-popping but oppressive, and the finale-with Camilla restored to her bean-eating self-brings a sigh of relief. As her condition worsens, Camilla becomes monstrous, ultimately merging with the walls of her room. Shannon (How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball) juggles dark humor and an anti-peer-pressure message. When she finally admits her unspeakable secret-she loves lima beans-she is cured. The doe-eyed girl changes her stripes at anyone's command, and only nonconformity can save her. she sprouted roots and berries and crystals and feathers and a long furry tail."" The paintings are technically superb but viscerally troubling-especially this image of her sitting in front of the TV with twigs and spots and fur protruding from her. It was the first day of school, and she couldn’t decide what to wear. Today she was fretting even more than usual. Camilla was always worried about what other people thought of her. All of her friends hated lima beans, and she wanted to fit in.
The rainbow-hued victim is Camilla Cream, sent home from school after some startling transformations: ""when her class said the Pledge of Allegiance, she turned red, white, and blue, and she broke out in stars!"" Scientists and healers cannot help her, for after visits from ""an old medicine man, a guru, and even a veterinarian. A Bad Case of Stripes Shannon, David Camilla Cream loved lima beans. On this disturbing book's striking dust jacket, a miserable Betty-Boop-like girl, completely covered with bright bands of color, lies in bed with a thermometer dangling from her mouth.
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