Yikes-Lice!

by Donna Caffey, Patrick Girouard (Illustrator)

Overview

Here's a light way to talk to children about that old nuisance head lice. Rhyming verses describe how one little girl gets head lice and how she and her parents get rid of them. Kids will enjoy the rollicking cartoon "cooties" playing hide-and-seek and having a party in the girl's hair until they are sent packing. Notes on each page provide detailed, factual information about head lice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807593738
Publisher:	Whitman, Albert & Company
Publication date:	03/01/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	24
File size:	43 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

Editorial Reviews

This book aims to remove the stigma from a pesky elementary-school plague, attacking the subject with a combination of factual prose and jangly couplets. Cartoons, on the garish side, show the lice having a barbecue in some unfortunate child's hair. Ages 4-10. (Mar.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

PreS-Gr 4The progression of lice infestation and treatment is told in rhyme, accompanied by Girouard's cartoons of purple-headed lice sporting multicolored T-shirts and grilling hot dogs for the family reunions as their population grows and grows. An infected girl wonders what is causing her to itch as her mother treats her head and her father launders everything in the house. It becomes a family adventure. A two-line rhyme on each page tells the story for younger readers with expanded information for older children further down on the page. Stereotypes about lice infestation are put to rest by Caffey's sensible text, a doctor's note to concerned grown-ups, and Girouard's amusing illustrations.Ann Cook, Winter Park Public Library, FL

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