Chickenpox Books

This is a hilarious and fun read, perfect for preschoolers and beginner readers. Goldie Locks comes down with chicken pox and goes through the phases of the illness - the fever, the itching and scratching, even the pesky younger sibling! And she is visited by familiar nursery rhyme characters - Jack of Jack Be Nimble, Little Bo Beep, Red Riding Hood etc. The text is written in rhyming style and makes for an enjoyable reading experience. The illustrations are colorful and gorgeously detailed. My 3.5 year-old enjoyed this immensely and I bet lots of other readers will agree!

My kids were both traumatised by Chicken pox, and this has enabled them to laugh about the whole experience. It is a very clever rhyming book which kids of all ages will love and the reference to other nursery rhymes makes it a throughly entertaining read.

This book is so clever! The book is fun to read b/c it rhymes, it has characters from nursery rhymes and it gives kids an introduction into the world of chickenpox. This book is a familiy favorite!

Me and my almost 3 year old daughter LOVE this book. She's never had the chicken pox, but even so, it's such great writing and cool pictures! I highly recomend it. My daughter begs me to read it to her every night! I wish the author/illustrater would team up for more books like this one!

This book is so cute. Goldie Locks has chicken pox and her little brother won't leave her alone. There are some familiar faces that drop by to check on Goldie and brother gets a little bit jealous.
Mamma Bear assures Goldie's mom that Baby Bear is fine because bears can't get chicken pox. Henny Penny comes by to let the Lock's that the sky is falling. Jack Be Nimble wants to play with Goldie but her dad doesn't think it's such a good idea. Little Bo Peep has stopped by to see if she can find her sheep and Little Red Riding Hood wants some company on the way to her grandmother's house.
It is a very contemporary book with humor and intrigue. Goldie's brother just can't stop teasing her. He wants to connect her dots and wants to know why she can have ice cream and treats and he can't. At the end of the story however, he ends up with some very mysterious spots.
This poem will make children laugh and get them excited because they will recognize other characters form other nursery rhymes. They will also be able to relate to Goldie if they have ever had chicken pox themselves. It is a very cute and simply entertaining story for children to enjoy.

There are several fantastic points about Dear Daisy, Get Well Soon. Instead of whining about waiting for Daisy to get better, Peter does something proactive: he sends his animal friends on missions to cheer her up. So the plot is charming and useful.
The details in the pictures really make the story come to life. The squirrel's reactions to different scenes are funny, and I liked seeing Daisy's mom pushing a reel mower with Daisy's little sibling strapped to her! So even supporting characters have their own personalities.
I even learned something about chicken pox from this book. Since I was a newborn when I had chicken pox, I don't remember it, and I thought it was contagious for two weeks. When it only took a week for Daisy to get better, I did research and found that, indeed, it's contagious for about a week (although Peter was lucky not to get it before anyone knew Daisy was sick).
So, overall, the book is great for its creativity and warmth. Good for kids, parents, and people who just enjoy children's literature.

Peter wants to play with his best friend Daisy, but is upset to find out that she's come down with the chicken pox. He decides to help make her feel better by sending things to cheer her up. Everything he does really helps and she's better before the week is out!

Daisy is likely cheered up by both the sweet presents Peter sends her (including a get well card and flowers) and the unusual delivery method --- Peter seems to have a fleet of animals (such as hippos and zebras) at his command, magically transformed from his stuffed toys.

The illustrations are soft and pleasing and full of visual detail to read and spot. This is also a counting story, which kids just learning to count will very much appreciate and have fun counting along with.

This is a lovely counting book. It has animals and great pictures to look at. It is about a little boy who misses his freind when she is sick. He send her different thing every day of the week in hopes of making her recover faster. It also would help a child learn the days of the week. It would be nice for a child who is missing a friend or family member or some one moves away. It has lots of ideas and creative things they can do to keep them busy and also please the reciever of all those things. Very lovely book to give to a sick friend. The most adorable book.

The book Dear Daisy, Get Well Soon is a charming story. It is about Two close friends and neighbors named Daisy and Peter. Daisy gets ill with the chicken pox and cant not com out and play with him for about a week. To make her not so lonely and in hopes of helping her get better faster he sends diffrent thigns to her eachday. This book also is a counting book, and helps them learn the days of the week.For example on monday he sends her a get well card and sends it over ot her house by giving it to an elephant. There are also lots of wonderful drawings and visuals for them to see.

My 18-month-old, Sara Rose, has been obsessed with this book since we first read it to her last month. We recently visited a tourist attraction where she saw zebras, flamingos and monkeys -- all of which are featured in the book -- and she screams as we turn each page and she spots those animals. She calls it "Zee-Zaa," as in the Zebra Book, and she carries it around the house with her and asks us to read it 10 times a day.

One of the few books I review is in the category ofChildren's literature and after reading this book I am sorry I begin doing the reviews before. Written by 11-year-old Laura Caso this 28-page book is about getting the Chicken pox and how it affected her life.

Laura writes about what happens to her and her brother and sister when they all come down the chicken pox and the story is delightful. Laura also illustrated the book as well. I especially enjoyed the dog's footprints to help guide you through the pages.

I have read this story to both my children several times and they enjoyed, in fact it has become a real bedtime favorite. At 11 and published, that is something to proud of and so is this book...

I thought this was a great book and it was a very creative and
imaginative book.I think the author did a wonderful job on this book and had some really great ideas for this book.I hope everybody will read this story.This book was about a girl who didn't like her life at all and one day she starts to scratch her arm and when she gets home sha finds out she has the chickenpox.So she cuts off all her hair.

Even with a vaccine for Chickenpox, most of the time it isn't required to get them and many children don't. This book helps children understand what chickenpox is and how to deal with it.

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I read Arthur's Chicken Pox. In this book, Arthur gets the chicken pox. Arthur wakes up with red spots on his face. He gets to eat on the sofa and DW wants to eat on the sofa, too. Will Arthur ever get better...I think you should read this book.

I haven't read the book but I've seen the episode on PBS and it was so cute, and also funny how DW pretended to have chicken pox just so she'll get attention.

Arthur gets the chickenpox just before the circus comes to town. So he gets all the attention and care ~~ leaving his sister, D.W. out in the cold with jealousy. She fakes getting chickenpox and learns a lesson the hard way.

It's a cute look at sibling rivalry and envy. The story is readable and fun.

Once again the illustrations are fun to look at ~~ bright and colorful and cheerful. My boys can't read yet but they really enjoy the illustrations and I enjoy reading the stories.

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Well, now that a hopefully working vaccine for chicken pox has been developed, this story is still great for teaching one about being careful what he or she wishes for.
The circus is in town-everybody's excited to go, but when Arthur is sick with chicken pox, D.W. comes home from play group to find Arthur lying on the couch so wishes she was sick so pretends to think Arthur is just pretending to be sick. And as the story continues, D.W. shows how she wishes she was the sick one-and in the end, Arthur is better, but D.W. gets the chicken pox.
This will be a great book to teach about being careful what you wish for even when chicken pox no longer exists.

My take on this book results from my observations of my four and six year olds (boy and girl). I think it would be popular with children precisely for the same reason that books on loose teeth are popular: children in this age range are tremendously curious about their bodies.

My daughter went frantic for a while inquiring about loose teeth. She inspected the mouth of anyone who had missing teeth or who had wobbly ones. She asked what happened to them that they got loose, and what happened to them after they fell out....

In the same way, I see her looking at this book about chicken pox. She (and to a lesser extent, her brother) are curious about the spots, what they mean, etc. Also, I think it is just dawning on children this age that they can get very ill, and I believe it is comforting to them see that they will be cared for.

[One mom commented that she was concerned about how much loving care was lavished on Arthur and D.W. But I think it is reassuring to children.]

Four Stars. Okay Read-aloud that is interesting to children.

I loved having this book available to my kindergarten students. Students checked this book out to take home and every time it came back to school the kids said it was a great book. The illustrations add to the humor of the book, and the words are understandable enough for beginning readers. Great for a classroom library.

my little sister had this years ago and I would read it to her. when she came down with chicken pox herself she was well prepared

I don't know about yours, but my children are fascinated by the old fashion childhood diseases like Chicken Pox and Measles. Go figure-- but somehow it rates right up there with loosing your teeth. As a consequence, this book is very popular at our house. In fact, my newly turned 5 y.o. son made his dad and I read it with him four times last night.

As a primer it has a lot going for it. There's rhyme and pictures to give 'clues' as to what the words might be. And the print is large, well spaced for new readers, and there isn't a great deal of it.

On the down side, there are a few words that are harder, such as: yucky, mucky, itchy, twitchy, scratch, batch, and between. As you see though, there's repetition in the base forms (-atch and -ucky) so children can get some good practice.

Four Stars. Very Good Read-aloud. The topic is of keen interest to small fry and the text has a nice rhyme. Good primer material for fairly early readers. My just turned 5 y.o. had very little problem with reading it after the first time through.

My daughter and I have enjoyed reading this book numerous times. The theme was very appropiate recently when there was an outbreak of chicken pox in her school. The story highlights different aspects of chicken pox and help to prepare or soothe a child who has been exposed and/or fighting the "itch" battle. This is a good book for beginning readers because of the repetiveness and flow of the text. I would strongly recommend this book to beginner and not-so-beginner readers.

Finally, a little dysfunction!! With all the stomps, sneers and slams you would expect on the third day of influenza-induced confinement, the candor of this warm, magical story is a rare and welcome treat.

This is a charming book. It also illustrates the little girl solving her boredom by using her imagination. She makes a TV, stove and bed for her Grandmother Doll out of cardboard boxes. Subtle humor for parents as well. My 5 and 6 year old girls love it

This book is about a creative and over imaginative girl about 9 years old who hangs out with friends younger than her that all meet after school and put on plays together for fun. In this book, she decides to write about chicken pox but nobody likes her play and believe that she has to have had chicken pox first in order to write about it so she writes a play about an evil stepmother instead. The rest of the plot just focuses on spying on a mysterious neighbor and some of the kids coming down with chicken pox themselves and then there is a finalized play at the end with the script and all about a chicken pox party. Not really something intellectual for a kid, but just some lazy fun stuff to read about.

A chicken pox party is really exposing one's kids at a young age to friends who have chicken pox so they can catch the virus early in life. This book doesn't have a chicken pox party the way it is defined 16 years after this book was written.

the book was so cute that I myself wanted to write plays of my own and make productions of shows I already liked. I even wanted to act out the play at the end but never got a chance.

I would read this all day even at the dinner table. The pizza party at the end was really mouth watering, as was the picnic.

this girl annie and her younger friends wanted to put on a play, this time about a chicken pox epidemic and no one liked the idea(though the cast of this first idea made it to the back of this book cover I still don't know why) then in the next chapter annie is working on a volcano for school and getting ideas for another play. She decides to do a play called the evil stepmother and after some debate she lets the new girl and her best friend both be stepmothers and realizes the new girl is so good at acting evil. Then the new girl's mom picks her up and realizes one of the other kids has chicken pox for real so she takes him home and the rest of the kids don't like the mom being strict with the new girl keeping her from being in the play so they all spy on her and realize she's being "held hostage" and when they find out she's her stepmother, annie gets caught up in her own fairytale and thinks something is really happening. But when they spy on her again and get caught they realize that the new girl actually came down with the chicken pox too which is why she couldn't come out to play, and they realize they were wrong about the mother too cause she was so nice and invited them all in for pizza. Then when annie goes home she realizes SHE has chicken pox and then writes a good play that is at the end of the book. The play is about a king and a queen and children in a village who love to play hula hoops and want to have a contest but then the boy comes down with chicken pox and can't participate so he goes to a sorcerer who gives him a chicken disguuise and so the "chicken" participates and wins the contest and they end up keeping him and feeding him chicken food but after a few days he's so tired of being a chicken that he wants to get out of his disguise and can't do it and starts to sound like a chicken too. Then the sorcerer helps him come out of the disguise and they all realize it was the boy from the village and by then all of them have come down with chicken pox so they all have a chicken pox party by sitting in a circle eating candy and peanuts and being tickled and then the king and queen end up making the boy a prince

now that I think about it the story is pretty lame but for it's time it was enjoyable.