PICTURE BOOKS
Van Laan, Nancy

Nit-pickin'

(4) K-3 Illustrated by George Booth. "I was scritcha-scratchin' / while a batch-a bugs / was hatchin'..." A girl describes home remedies to rid her of head lice, as suggested by various family members. Finally, she's (unrealistically) cured with a single delousing-shampoo treatment. Frenetic digitally colored ballpoint illustrations show the girl's panic and discomfort. The running top-of-page visual status report on the bugs is amusing.

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