Rhyming text describes what happens when a family discovers lice in the home and fights against them. Includes factual information about how lice live, spread, and can be eradicated.
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From Publishers Weekly
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.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 4AThe 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.AAnn Cook, Winter Park Public Library, FL
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Yikes--Lice! (Concept Books (Albert Whitman)) (Hardcover)
This book should be on every students school supply list. When our daughter came home from school with lice I was as horrified as she was. This book explains these naughty little creatures at a level we all can understand. Makes for enlightening reading on such an unenlightening subject.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Perhaps the Right Choice for Younger Children - a review of "Yikes-Lice!",
This review is from: Yikes--Lice! (Paperback)
This book covers the basic material about lice - size, means of transmission, what's needed to get rid of them - in a fashion suitable for even very young children. One of the ways it does this is by using drawings instead of photographs. Photos tending to be scarier for the really young as lice are sort of monstrous when greatly magnified.
The other thing that the author does is to provide two different textual approaches to the information. The first is normal prose, and the second is a rhyme. For really young children I think I would talk about what the pictures showed, and use only the rhyme on repeat readings. Three Stars [C+]. Cute, colorful and non-threatening, this book covers the basics but wouldn't be a great resource for an "advanced" book report on the topic of lice. The Accelerated Reading designation/ATOS is 4.3 for this book. Pam T~
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic Read/ Great learning Tool,
This review is from: Yikes--Lice! (Paperback)
Yikes- Lice is a fantastic read for both children and adults! Author Donna Caffey wonderfully explains the lice epidemic in a well written rhyming children's book. I would personally recommend school nurses across the nation to include this book on their shelves.
Caffey should be encouraged to write more books on changeling subjects for children.
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The head louse, sometimes called a cootie, lives on the human head. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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The head louse, sometimes called a cootie, lives on the human head. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
head lice New!
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