Summary: A sick girl who throws up at school learns that vomiting is sometimes unavoidable and that the sickness--and the embarrassment--will pass. - (Baker & Taylor)
Booklist Reviews
Readers need but glance at the endpapers, crammed with green-faced, bulgy-cheeked critters, to know what to expect here: vomit, and lots of it. Though fictional, Carlson's book acts as a practical what-to-expect guide for losing your lunch. A straight-talking young lass gets us off to a good start: a two-page spread of spewing animals. Everyone, you see, engages in the ol' Technicolor yawn. For a dog, explains the girl, hurling is no biggie, "but barfing is scary to a kid!" She recounts how an "icky flu bug" (from a school lunch, natch) makes her queasy and how she tries to resist horking, but, ultimately, upchuck will not be denied. "When you barf at school," she adds, "be prepared, because everyone will go nuts!" Yes, schooltime cookie tossings are traumatic—no one likes to see the janitor and his "special barf cleanup machine"—but Carlson's message is that it's normal, temporary, and you'll even be welcomed back. Giddily illustrated with glorious cartoon grossness, this is a great normalizing device for all those reluctant regurgitators out there. Copyright 2014 Booklist Reviews.
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