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Author and Illustrator: Tedd Arnold

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Grade Level: K-2

A boy is worried because there are some unusual things happening to him. First his hair is falling out when he combs through his hair and then skin started to peel from his toes. Then something grey and wet is falling from his nose. Perhaps it is his brain he thinks! Something came out of his belly button and he thinks that it is his stuffing coming out. A tooth is coming loose as well. He finds his dads masking tape and tapes himself together in hopes to keep everything together. His parents come home and see him all wrapped up in masking tape and begin to explain to him that all these things happening to him are normal. In the end it leaves the readers with a question as the little boy asks what this yellow stuff is from his ear. 

The illustrations are very funny looking characters with no necks and big heads. They give the book a very creepy vibe that its supposed to bring with all these things that are happening to the young boy. The color scheme is very vibrant and fun and give the illustrations life. 

I could use this in the classroom to entertain the readers as well as talk about a time where something like this happened to them and what they thought. It can be used in a health lesson.