【预订】A Translation of Jacob's Greek Reader (1842) 97811645543
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/ 2010-09-10
¥259.00
A Bad Case of Stripes - Audio [Audiobook, CD] [Audio CD]糟糕,身
/ 2007-02-01
From Publishers Weekly On this disturbing book's striking dust jacket, a miserableBetty-Boop-like girl, completely covered with bright bands ofcolor, lies in bed with a thermometer dangling from her mouth. Therainbow-hued victim is Camilla Cream, sent home from school aftersome startling transformations: "when her class said the Pledge ofAllegiance, she turned red, white, and blue, and she broke out instars!" Scientists and healers cannot help her, for after visitsfrom "an old medicine man, a guru, and even a veterinarian... shesprouted roots and berries and crystals and feathers and a longfurry tail." The paintings are technically superb but viscerallytroubling?especially this image of her sitting in front of the TVwith twigs and spots and fur protruding from her. The doe-eyed girlchanges her stripes at anyone's command, and only nonconformity cansave her. When she finally admits her unspeakable secret?she loveslima beans?she is cured. Shannon (How Georgie Radbourn SavedBaseball) juggles dark humor a
¥41.30