Why was this a children's book?
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I love that the two reactions to this book are “omfg this book traumatized me” or “lol I loved this book as as a kid”.
We need to do some science or some shit to understand this polarized reaction.
I loved it as a kid and got it for my friend for her birthday, and she was so horrified of it that the mere existence of it in the house was having her cry and panic so much her mom had to tell her that she threw it away and that it was gone. (Her mom didn't actually, she just gave it away to someone)
now that i think about it i think the reason i loved the book so much as a kid was because of how weird it was
@@user-ui3qs9rk6g ah-
This is the perfect example of the polarized reaction omg
drop the skincare routine bc babes your skin is perfect
@Mushroom Lord same, obscurity was so fucking appealing to me as a child.
This book was either made to:
a. Scare children into not making their personality into their friend’s standards
b. Scare children into eating their vegetables
c. All of the above
Well I was greatly effected with a.... Thank ks teachers I'm broken bc of you 👍
This story didn't scare me when I was younger, but now that I think about it, uhhh, it's kinda messed up.
I got scared everytime I saw the pictures, but I kept on reading it, idk why lmao 💀
forget the life lesson nonsense, this author staight up wanted to terrorize small children. There's nothing to learn here besides don't fuck with them
this didn't scare me for some reason, instead I was afraid of an imaginary monster called "Potty" who was a living vase with a triangle nose and sharp teeth who wanted to eat me if I wasn't hiding
OMG THIS BOOK USED TO SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF ME. I remember coverin my ear everytime i heard the Pledge because i thought i would turn into the USA flag. this book scared me so much that i used keep lights on everywhere i go and even used the restroom with the door being slightly open because i thought the girl would attack me if i was alone.
verified person
There is not a single normal person who wasn’t terrified of this book when they were younger
yup
I didn't have an issue.
@@pey12slash09 I wasn’t terrified.
Being honest, I think the art style is really charming, along with the story. His art style is really captivating and although a bit strange, I think that just adds to it. I personally was freaked out by the book, yet at the same time I absolutely loved it. Idk if that makes sense but whatever
That makes absolute sense, I was the same way! It kinda freaked me out as a kid but the art style was kinda intriguing too. Looking at it now, I question how the hell I even had the guts to read this a bunch as a child lol, but, the art is honestly just wildly amazing. Like, that's some serious talent.
Same 😂☝️ I actually liked the art style and the stories message when I was younger. I was like in 4th & 5th grade at the time, so that's why I wasn't really as freaked out. It's a tad creepy, but endearing and nostalgic to me
I feel the same! I just was never freaked out by it
Honestly as an artist i love his art style so so much, find it so pretty and comforting
@@rt_with_s0ph13 yea!
I was never scared by the drawings, but slowly turning into random things while not knowing how to fix it is a level of anxiety that’s terrifying to me.
I was scared of the audiobook of this because of the whole “melt into the walls thing”
I remember briefly watching this going "wow she looks pretty" and now that I'm watching this I'm going "it's not the fact that it exists, it's the fact that it's drawn visually and it quivers bones I never knew I had"
That’s exactly how I felt about it.
As a kid I liked this book, and enjoyed when the teacher would read it to the class, but looking back on it it’s literally body horror 😭
Peak surrealism
Bro same
It’s not that scary
@@CasualCat64 I don;t find it too unsettling either-
This book fr got me into body horror
The moral of this book reminds me of when your parents say “if you’re friends jumped off a cliff, would you?” but in a wayyyy more dramatic fashion
I’d take a cliff over this shit any day
gotta be honest i would jump off a cliff because fuck family
... it's not normal for your parents to say that. are you ok?
@@personone1382lmao yes it is
@@personone1382 Yes it is
This book was horrifying to me as a kid, especially when it leans into body horror with the bacteria limbs and crap.
S A M E
Baby's first David Lynch
Body horror is the best way to describe this
the part where she turns into her room scared me so hard 💀 i spent so much time looking around my room trying to figure out what decoration would be each part of my face
You just unlocked a deep anxious memory of mine. I swear this book scarred me for life.
SAME
AS A KID I SAW THIS BOOK ON THE BOOK FAIR MAGAZINE THINGY AND STARTED CRYING AND THEN I SAW IT AGAIN IN ELEMENTARY AND MY REACTION WAS SO EXTREME THAT THE TEACHER TOOK THE BOOK OUT OF THE PILE FOR THE KIDS TO READ. Just seeing this thumbnail was enough to send chills down my spine.
A different children's book that I loved as a kid was "The Little Match Girl". It was about a girl dying of cold and hunger in an alley.
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Still my favorite! I was a child with depressing taste.
Have you seen the animated film of it by Disney? It made me cry for 20 minutes.
its worse that she saw warmth and food every time she lit a match
At least she's with her grandmother now.
I suggest you read a funny story such as Van Hunks and the Devil.
david shannon, the junji ito of children’s books, apparently
I loved this book. I have bipolar disorder, and it was early onset, so I developed it at the age of five. As an adult looking back, I realize that I think the reason I loved this book so much is because I related to what I believe is its real meaning. The lima beans represent who Camila really is. She suppresses that part of herself because other people make her feel like she should. They don't like it. But in doing so, she develops problems. She's suddenly self-conscious. (I know believe this to be "masking.") Then the kids start making fun of her, and the problems get worse, because of course they would. Then the doctors come and give her pills she probably doesn't need. She becomes the pill because that's what happens when you take pills you don't need - you become a manifestation of symptoms and side-effects. As more doctors coldly examine her and throw treatments at her, Camila gets worse. Nothing is working, and she begins to feel more and more like a broken freak who will never get better. It is only when the kind old lady comes to tell her it's okay to be true to yourself (aka gives her the lima beans) that Camila recovers. At the very end, Camila still has the rainbow stripes, but she's displaying it voluntarily and proudly, and it's just a small part of her. Obviously, considering this book is from the 90s, I'm not sure how much of the language we have today was thought of when he was writing it, but I do believe this was the underlying message. It made my little neurodivergent heart happy, and it made me feel a little seen. But that's me.
I love this interpretation
I was diagnosed bipolar at five as well and went through similar stuff
DUDE I LOVED THIS BOOK TOO IT WAS SO FRICKIN GOOD?? WHENEVER WE WOULD READ IT IN CLASS I WOULD GET SO EXCITED AND THIS TAKE ON IT IS SO GOOD
Oh geez, that's brilliant
@@foggypebble5159what does bipolar mean
This book used to scare the crap out of me whenever the teacher read it. I was a kid who was diagnosed with anxiety at a young age, and I would always have my anxiety flare up whenever the teacher or librarian read this book in school.
I remember loving this book unconditionally. I loved how slightly "off" the art style was and how bizarre the concept was. That one scene of her sitting in front of the window was the only drawing that got me though. I remember sitting on the floor in kindergarten just staring at these drawings, always getting upset when I finished the book and there were no more weird drawings. I think the slightly uncanny art style from this book (and honestly other media like The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack) really shaped my childhood. Wish more recent kids books were illustrated like this.
I remember this book as well, And I also really liked it
I loved the book too as a child. I love the art style too
ikr? loved that shit too as a kid. this video gave me a lot of nostalgia
@@axlr1029 it unlocked memories for me that I forgot I had
Same
I absolutely LOVED this book as a kid and actually thought about it constantly for years after it was read to my class as a child. The art was super memorable and vivid and while I do remember feeling a bit of that like "horror" aspect being there--even as a kid--I loved it. That being said, I was *not* a kid who enjoyed being scared and I was deathly afraid of many things.
Also, as an aside, she wasn't turned into a gumball machine; she turned into a pill due to the medicines. I forget which one it is but there's a specific medicine that usually comes in a gelatin capsule that has little ball-shaped things inside it that you can see. :)
"Specific"
You mean multiple xDDD
Ive taken multiple meds for multiple different things that have come in a capsule like that loll
@@sparklingchoice lol tbh I rarely take medicine so I've only encountered it once lol
@@lospagnolofalso xDD Thats fair-
I take a ton of meds so I know that there are a lot-
This book completely unironically ruined my life. When I was a very young child I was pretty normal but one day in the library I saw someone reading this book and like the creepy little weirdo I was I discreetly read it over their shoulder. At the time I was disturbed, but it only got worse. For MONTHS. I would be plagued every night with the worst panic attacks of my life. I was absolutely TERRIFIED of this book. And once I got over this, there were other books I was scared of. But this was the first. Realistically I would have still had problems with the others had I not read this book that day but it still marks the beginning of a ~7 year time period of increasingly worse panic attacks every night until I ended up vomiting from fear one night and somehow just, ending the fear. So this book still gives me an instinctive reaction of pure terror. It was kind of hard to watch this video but I suppose this is the first time I am reading it since that day. Interestingly enough I still remember 80% of the illustrations. Sorry I just felt like saying my experience.
Oh my god that's really intense
When I was younger my teacher read it to the class. It honestly made me kinda comforted, this also started my interests in body horror. This also made me like more “horror” and creepy type of books and just things in general.
I was scared of Pete the cat if you ever heard of that and this book called DONT push the red button
your fear manifested into bile which you puked out and you were cured.
@@MLFLimeyO interestingly enough I’m now obsessed with horror and gore and creepy stuff but this was too much for my young mind
this unlocked a DEEP childhood memory in me… I have not thought about this book in literal years and honestly if I did I probably would have thought it was a dream. I don’t know if I still own this book. Kinda wanna go back to it now.
I'm definitely part of the "this book traumatized me" club. As a kid, the lessons I learned were doctors are scary, kids will pick on me if I'm different, and eat your veggies.
I'm just going to shove this book right back down into the depths of my almost forgotten memories where it should have stayed.
I think it was about not changing yourself for others (at least, not changing harmless things about yourself). Camilla starts off staving off harmless bits of herself to fit in, and then keeps changing herself for people in a literal/physical sense when she gets the stripes, and the cure is eating lima beans--something Camilla liked but refused to do for the sake of conformity. I remember watching a video of this for class in elementary school. I'm kind of surprised that it scared people.
@@aerinhinton964 oh yes, I agree. I can see the morals they were going after now, but as a kid the the imagery and uneasy nature of the illustrations is what stuck with me and skewed my interpretation of the book.
Spicy memories
If I’m being honest, I was afraid to eat Lima beans after reading the book because as a stupid little child, I thought once I ate them then stopped, I’d become a house.
This used to be my favorite book as a child, I would be so happy when I found it in the library
I loved this book. "Don't let others change you like a stop light" probably caused me to be who I am today.
I have NEVER heard of this book but I’ll be honest I was a child who loved the slightly unsettling books to a degree that sometimes made my mom uncomfortable so I probably would’ve loved this lol
Omg when i was in kindergarten my teacher would read us this book like 3 times a week-
Bro, you would love the original Pinocchio book. That shit was DARK
@@fueledbycandy5920 Funnily enough that's one of the books that I loved as a kid so you're dead on 😆
I remember reading this, and it didn't freak me out as much as it should.
Even back then, I was still horribly desensitized.
Huh, it’s cool seeing this book again. I remember being fascinated and concerned by it.
Now it’s reading as, “Because she wasn’t true to herself, she slipped into being a reflection of what everyone around her wanted or assumed of her.” A reflection of her environment and others instead of just- her. The kid who likes Lima beans
And the aspect of her turning into her room, is giving metaphoric depression....
YOOO I LOVE THIS SO MUCH
This book actually started my love for the "horror" genre, and much more creepy things. It holds a special place in my heart just for that, I don't think I'd be so into horror and such if I hadn't had that book at least once in my life.
Exact same experience, oh my lord.
Same tho-
I used to love this book, when i saw the thumbnail, i was immediately hit with a wave of nostalgia, i always found the book, strange but never frighting, weird.
Camila must’ve been traumatized out of her mind. The bullying, the medical trauma.
I know right?
Imagine someone asking her later in life why she always eats lime beans probably any time she can and having to remember what happened
Exactly like she’s probably gonna be terrified to not eat lima beans or she’ll be terrified OF them
I have a insane fear of body horror, like genuinely have nightmares as a 18 year old when I’m forced to watch those types of movies with friends. I partly blame this book I read and got scared by as a child
when i was a kid my mental illnesses were very severe, to the point my mom couldn’t take me to a super market until i was 10 or 11. i remember strange things would send me into a straight mental breakdown. as a child i saw this book as an audio book on yt kids and barely watched 3 minutes because i got distracted. the cover on the other hand looked really cool to me so it’s funny hearing him say this
I wasn’t scared of this book, it was a childhood favorite of mine when i was a kid, i wish this book was made into a movie
DAMN seeing that cover unlocked a memory. Used to have this book along with tons of other weird books as a kid.
The saying “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover” actually saved me because I remember seeing the cover on the book and thought it was creepy, so I never tried reading it.
you were spared
Wouldn't that be juding a book by the cover?
thats literally judging a book by its cover what
I think you meant to say that the saying almost killed you
Isn’t that, by definition, judging a book by its cover?
"He wasted it on children" what a great quote that will go down as one of the best quotes of all time
Girl: *pretends to be something she isn't*
Universe: *"You have failed the vibe check."*
I feel like this book is an allegory for the autistic experience and having to mask (i.e, pretending to be something you're not to people please) all the time, but honestly the illustrator must have been smoking crack and doing LSD at the same time holy shit
"ABSORB THE RAINBOW"
“TASTE THE RAINBOW MF.”
I remember ready this a long time ago at my old school, I was scared to my core and after we read the book our teacher gave us lima beans
The teacher read this book to us as a kid and I was also equally freaked out. After watching your video I believe that the true meaning behind this book in the beginning is that our main character was letting the people around her change who she is, the stripes representing her to be a blank canvas for others to paint their own pictures of her. As the story progresses it does get hard to follow but in the end I believe the girl was overwhelmed by all of these expectations, and it was far too stressful living life to others standards.
(Of course since it was a children's book the main focus was her pretending not to like Limabeans but there was a deeper message behind it :] )
"Camila never pretended not to like lima beans again... *Camila was happy* "
Let's read the subtext: Camila was fucking terrified of not eating lima beans because last time she didn't she _became her room_ . That smile is hiding a depth of fear and trauma behind it.
This reminded me of the deep, unsettling horror I felt reading Kafka's The Metamorphosis in high school. Just something about the uncontrollable changing of someone's shape into something unrecognizable, no matter what the moral or message is, is horrifying.
Metamorphosis is such a good story! I first came across it when I was around 13 - I listened to a radio dramatisation of it. The story's always stuck with me and I'll listen to it each time I notice it's back on BBC Sounds. I don't really remember feeling scared/dread while listening to it though - just that it was such a unique and interesting story (I've always been into horror though & have a really strong disconnect between stories and reality, so I don't often get particularly sad/scared by stories - just excited at how good the plot is)
This also reminds me of that old Filipino fable that stuck with me the most which is "Alamt Ng Piña" (The Legend of Pineapple).
So, it starts off with a mother getting sick and couldn't able to do her household chores. so she ordered her young daughter to cook some soup for them to eat. but later the daughter had forgot about the soup still in the stove as she become focus into playing which the soup ended up being burnt. though surprisingly the mother didn't get mad instead she just excused it as she appreciates her daughter's help.
Few days passed, the mother's condition still not getting well so it's still the daughter doing the chores. One day, as the daughter was about to cook some food, she suddenly couldn't find the matches so she immediately asked her mother about it. and then few moments later, she also couldn't find the serving spoon so she also immediately asked it to her mother. then out of nowhere the mother became pissed and shouted at the daughter saying "Goodness! I hope you grow many eyes so you can see many things without you repeatedly asking me about it!"
The daughter then went silent and then goes outside without saying any word.
Few days had passed and the mother is now well, but her daughter is still not home. so she became worried and goes outside for her to look. but then in her garden. she noticed a rather odd thing. and when she closely look at it, the thing had a shape of a human head and had multiple eyes. the mother became horrified and started to cry as she realizes that the might've been her daughter that she curses out and now had turned into a fruit.
Although this might not weirded out to some of you, but to me it does. I can't believe no adults in my country had pointed out how weird this children's story is.
This is a great book, even though the art style doesn't compliment it very well.
This book is trying to teach kids to not care about the opinions of others. In the beginning, she says that she doesn't like beans because her friends don't, she lets them affect her. She cares about the opinions of the kids at school, and it affects her, she cares about the opinion of other adults, and it also affects her. When she finally accepts who she is and what she likes, she goes back to being alright.
In my opinion, the real creepy part of this book is how a simple comment of a peer can completely destroy you.
edit: yaaaay 105 likes in one night :D
That's pretty poignant. You have a great mind
Not sure if anyone has said this yet, but this book is a literal version of 'the tiger cannot change it's stripes', meaning you cannot change your essential nature. Chamilla lies about her nature (not liking lima beans) and then literally gets stripes that can be changed by others (I suppose as punishment, because she tried to change her stripes for others), then she herself becomes something that can be changed by others (a pill because doctors gave her pills etc). When she accepts the fact she likes lima beans, she accepts her true nature, and the 'sickness' goes away. I think it is actually a good message, albeit told in a horrifying way, and despite the first page looking like it could be anti-ligbt lol, it is actually quite a pro-lgbt message (or at least that is how I felt about it).
I don't know how the old woman knew about the beans though, maybe she was behind it 👀
@@SpookyBlueNStuff thank you! :D
@@abi1449 I hadn't thought of it like that :0
Kindergarten me over here had a mental breakdown while the teacher was reading this in class
OH MY GOD i literally screamed when i saw this video. this book TERRIFIED me as a child, so much that nobody in my class could read it in first grade because i would start crying.
Omg I’m glad I’m not the only weirdo that started crying in class when I saw it.
@@NicholasBlack NOPE. i swear there needs to be a support group for people traumatized by this book
I was around the same age (6-7) but I didn't cry but I was creeped out by it and was confused why nobody else thought the same. I dreaded when this book was read ever since.
I was so scared of it that at daycare the older kids would threaten to simply get it out of the bookshelf to make me do what they wanted
I will say I did love this book as a child. In fact, oddly enough, it was the only book I went back to the library to check out and reread as a child multiple times. (And I am an avid reader so I read as many different books that I think interest me as I can)I think the art style intrigued my mind as a young child, especially the gumball machine picture lmao ( lives rent free in my brain) and it never appalled to me how weird the story is and how unsettling the art is. When I saw the thumbnail I was hit with nostalgia "oh I remember that book it was my favorite!" This made me realize how much of an odd mind I had as a child in elementary talking this book home once every school year until I forgot it existed when I moved school on fourth grade.
Saaame the nostalgia is intense
I also enjoyed the book and it’s unique art style! Gotta love the nostalgia this gives!
This is exactly the same thing that happened to me. The gum ball picture especially-
Same!!
Honestly, same. All the colors and weird body changing stuff was really fascinating to me as a kid.
1:45 I think you were too young for the book…my youngest (preschool) goes ew but my oldest (5th) loves it 😆 It’s like an AI did the art style lol That lip bed scared me as a kid!
So I remember finding the message of this book more unsettling than the art. But that's probably because I grew up with a surrealist artist/art teacher for a mother. Mostly because I took the message as: "don't be a picky eater or you'll be bullied out of school and shapeshift into an abominable monster" and it made me really uncomfortable when we had it read to us during library story time in like first or second grade (although, I was quite the opposite of a picky eater in those times).
Like it wasn't as traumatizing for me as The Velveteen Rabbit, but in terms of children's books it is one of the worse ones that I NEVER wanted to read or even really look at because of it.
I loved the Velveteen Rabbit, granted I read it when I was a little older than the age range (maybe 10?) so I enjoyed it. I was scared of a story about a zombie rabbit that came back to life and my teacher then made us do a performance of. Hated it.
Not sure if anyone has said this yet, but this book is a literal version of 'the tiger cannot change it's stripes', meaning you cannot change your essential nature. Chamilla lies about her nature (not liking lima beans) and then literally gets stripes that can be changed by others (I suppose as punishment, because she tried to change her stripes for others), then she herself becomes something that can be changed by others (a pill because doctors gave her pills etc). When she accepts the fact she likes lima beans, she accepts her true nature, and the 'sickness' goes away. I think it is actually a good message, albeit told in a horrifying way, and despite the first page looking like it could be anti-ligbt lol, it is actually quite a pro-lgbt message (or at least that is how I felt about it).
I don't know how the old woman knew about the beans though, maybe she was behind it 👀
@@abi1449 that actually makes a lot of sense, it’s a great premise for a book I just wish it was executed a little better
I remember the velveteen rabbit! I always was sort of scared of the old "real" horse.
@@satnxii in our version of the story that we were read the horse and other toys that talked with the rabbit in the beginning were burned with everything else. (Which I find personally much more upsetting because I was VERY attached to my toys)
Bro, the SECOND I saw that thumbnail I knew what book that was.
That book's story was cute, but FUCK were the illustrations horrifying. ESPECIALLY when the girl just straight-up MELTS into the house, that shit is something that STILL haunts me to this day.
I remember reading this book in school, I never thought of it being a terrifying book because I was never alarmed by it. Looking back I can defiantly see why it might be terrifying to kids.
I remember being terrified of this book as a little kid and watching a video of it in class because we didn’t have the real book. After the gumball machine drawing is when I really got scared like that’s when it started getting more unsettling
8:31 The moral of the story was to not change yourself for what other people think. It was also to eat your vegetables
“She Literally changed herself”
This is one of those books my teacher read to me in 1st grade that I have no memory of besides the cover and maybe some pictures, looking back on this book it reminds me of when I would play video games and texture glitches happened where characters skin would become a random texture like floors, eyeballs, or random photos and it would creep me out terribly and this book brought back flashbacks
I'm not gonna lie i've always loved this book and especially this artstyle. It's just so realistically absurd and that's appealing to me for whatever reason
I never read this book myself as a child, but my teacher read this to the whole class and it unsettled me. The experience felt so effing weird
your user is top quality
@@thedinosquad4639 Why thank you
I REMEMBER THIS BOOK. As a child I had constant nightmares about this book and I begged my mom to get rid of it.
I was horrified when I was read this book in 1st grade, it traumatized me
There was this one children's book I read at the ripe old age of 15 and it freaked me out so much. I don't remember the name but the premise is this:
kids should sleep with their feet tucked under the blankets. if they don't do that a sock monster will come and pile on so many socks that your feet will be stinky and you will end up going to school with massive sock feet and towering over not only your peers--but the school buildings themselves. You then have to go to hospital and lie down for hours on end while doctors with clothes pegs on their noses peel each sock off with 20th century looking pliers.
I don't understand why children's books have to be so creepy
i remember that book, too. if i visit my old schools i'll see if i can find it
@@highlighterjelly ooh please, I'll also have a look in my local library to see if it's there too
I was so scared of this book that I had to be escorted out of the classroom every time the teacher read this.
I loved the book as a kid. I read it so much the book fell apart. It never occurred to me that people think it's creepy. I read as an adult and I still love it.
SAAAAME😂
I LOVED this book as a kid. I was a kid who loved veggies when so many of friends didn't, so I actually caught on to the message. I never considered some people might think it's just body horror because you didn't eat the right thing 😅
The nostalgia is REAL! This book used go terrify me when I was little.
Seeing this thumbnail is the opposite of nostalgia
I LOVED this book as a kid. But as I’m reading the other comments I realize all of us that loved this book have one thing in common. We all love horror now😭
This book used to terrify me as a kid. Now it’s just very unsettling…
this was my fav book as a kid Lmao
@@jadegaristo179 you're a monster.
Imma be honest I LITERATELY REALLY LIKED THIS BOOK AS A KID AND LOWKEY IT WAS ONE OF MY FAVES BUT NOW I REALIZED ITS BASICALLY BODY HORROR💀😭
I loved this book as a kid. Probably the reason why I like vivid colors and body horror ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
THIS lol
Taken out of context this sounds kinda psychopathic
@@kingcyclops4079 LMAO
Man, this book fucked me up in the 4th grade. I was so shook and legitimately "traumatized" by it that my teacher had to take me aside and tell me, "Please remember, it's not real. You'll be okay."
i wanted this from the bookfair but when the teacher was reading the next parts i was traumatized 😭
I read this book when I was younger and I actually really liked it. I never even thought of it as scary at all though.
“We need to teach kids to be themselves, how can we do that?”
David: “Traumatize them, take it or leave it.”
As a child I both loved this book and was terrified of it at the same time. One book series that I definitely hated was dogman though. My sister loved that series so she would bring books home, and I if I was bored enough, I would read them. I hated the art style and the story and the immaturity, and the fact that once I picked it up I couldn’t stop reading until I was done with the book. I felt so bad that I was wasting time reading a stupid book that I hated
For the longest time I thought this was a fever dream I had; I remember reading it in class but I never saw it in any bookstore and my parents had no idea what I was talking about when i tried to describe it
I remember this book but I wasn’t scared of it. It was unsettling, but no David was way more unsettling. You could make horror series with this guy’s style
the thing that freaked me out the most is that the character looks EXACTLY like my eldest sister when we were kids
As a fellow scared shitless by their own shadow kid I'd like to also add to the list of books with art styles that absolutely horrified me as a child.
1. the stinky cheese man
2. the true story of the the three little pigs
3. most of the art of the the iSpy books.
OMG I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT STINKY CHEESE MAN!! THAT WAS MY FAVORITE BOOK!!!!
Why do I know what the stinky cheese man is?? Like I don't but it dwells in the deep recess of my brain
What about David, and Parts?
Mine were the diesel engines in Thomas the Train
@@flowerchild2496 it’s a book of parodies of fairy tales! it’s genuinely very funny and clever, i’ve loved it since i was little
im going to say this before i even watch
to the title i say yes, that book litterally scared me so much as a child ;-;
In kindergarten, the teacher’s would always read this book all the time and every time they read it I would try to go to the bathroom cause this book scared the crap out of me and the cover still kind of does
We always read the book in kindergarten and I was terrified turning into fricking room
I’ve been reading some comments. Am I the only one who watched a read aloud of this book in school and wasn’t terrified?
Me too, I'm honestly confused how this would be scary
@@Young_loud2072 I think it was mostly the people who saw it when they were really young and got over it by 10-11. And the realistic art style can be unsettling now, but terrifying to younger children.
@@Young_loud2072 As a person who was traumatized by this book as a kid, I can say this. I, at least, was a really little kid (can't remember exactly how old, but probably 3,4, maybe 5?) and was an extremely scared little kid. Scared of the dark, spiders, literally like everything. And for me, it was mainly just because the art style is kinda different, kinda unsettling, kinda scary. Extremely little things can scare little kids, and then when you get older, you still kind of have that nostalgic-terror that you felt when you were a kid. So, yeah, basically, long story short, was just kind of a wimpy kid who got scared by everything and got traumatized by a book with a different art style, so to this day, I still feel dread where as a kid I literally cried and had panic attacks.
I think I probably had to once.
@@avibingpotato Exactly.
Oh my goodness, I have been looking for this book for YEARS. I had never had lima beans, nor heard of lima beans, before reading it, but I was absolutely terrified as a six-year-old that if I didn't eat any lima beans, I would have severe skin conditions. Unfortunately, puberty happened, and I still had a severe skin condition, as well as this weird permanent dermatitis thing my father's genes gave me. I am going to share this with my friends so they can, too, witness the horror that is "A Bad Case of the Stripes".
When I Was Younger, The "Stripe" Book Gave Me Serious Nightmares. 😅
David Shannon is probably the creator of Devianart.
When I was a kid this book used to scare me so much, I had to sleep with my parents for a 3 weeks until I forgot about it.
I love how this guy just can never use the word “she”
This Book was deadass filled with just straight up body horror.
I loved this book as a kid, it shows a great amount of imagination you don't see now a days. I always admired the number of lesson and creative decisions that were put into it.
IDK, when I was a kid I never thought of this as a "scary" book, I personally enjoyed it
same :)
The feeling that the cover gives me is the same as the cover for the bionicle adventures (?) Legends of Metru Nui. It scares me because of the way they drew vakama, I was 12 the first time I saw it, I am now 12½. Vakama's eyes look very unsettling
i remember this book! it was in 1st grade and i loved it because it was so unsettling, and i think and began my love for unsettling/creepy art.
This book freaked me out for YEARS, I only read it once in it’s entirety and was always scared to see even the cover again
I LOVE this book I remember going to my school's library/reading center and I was just fascinated so much by it and it probably kickstarted my love for monstrous amalgamations and other body horror stuff.
I remember being traumatized by this book in kindergarten, and every time I went to grab a book to read, I made it a point to avoid looking at it
Not sure if I was dropped as a baby, or if the attempt on my at-the-time 6 yr old life messed me up more than I realized, but the No David books and this book were, and still are, my jam. I love creepy things so much!
OMG as a child I lOVED the illustrations in this book! And now as a grown -up illustrator, I can really appreciate them much more! :O)
same!! it did unnerve me reading this a ton but i really liked it anyway artistically
I was so scared of this book grades kindergarten through 4th and it has never left my soul. I had teachers talk to other teachers because of how scared I was if this book.
I remember my teacher showing me and my 1st grader class this book and me freaking out and having a panic attack from this book.
I remember reading this book when I was a kid in daycare and it always *freaked me out.* I don't even know why I think it was just because the artstyle looked weird for me...
This was and still is my favourite children’s growing up and reading it now just makes me so happy and brings back so many memories (they showed us to us in year 1 all the way to year 6 and it was only 1 teacher who did it)
Yeah i remember this book. It creeped me out when i was younger. Showed to my class and everybody at lunch was talking about it saying "That video was freaky guys." And "It didint make any sense."
Oh my gosh this book-
When I read this in first grade I couldn’t wake up a single day without checking me and all of my stuffed animals for the stripes. It was stupid but by golly I was genuinely scared.
I remember reading this like other "nostalgic children's books." For some reason, like I have when I first seen FNaF jumpscares and read Wattpad fanfics (lord have mercy on our souls), I felt nothing and kept reading it, thinking it was, well, "interesting", as I would say, but i knew it wasn't all great at all. really, it's not. and for those who have not read any Wattpad fanfics yet, you should be thankful for the time being, until god, have mercy for you're going to sin soon
Wattpad is full of garbage
I fr still have that book but I never got scared- it was kinda crazy but I actually loved the book lol I can’t believe I wasn’t sacred looking back cuz I was like SCARED OF IT ALL
I actually liked this book growing up and I read it a lot too but it never scared me either it just intrigued me.
I remember reading this book at my old schools library. The nostalgia hits overtime