You Can't Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown by Paula Danziger

You Can't Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown

Paula Danziger

Penguin Young Readers Group · Paperback · September 7, 2006

Even when surprises come from all directions, Amber Brown is always bold, bright, and colorful. #Amber Brown is out now on Apple TV+ It's finally summer and Amber Brown is going to London to visit her aunt Pam and then to Paris to visit with her father.

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Who it’s for
A lively summer mishap brings illness and family hopes into the same child-sized tangle.
Themes
Illness disrupting plans, Wanting a parent to move back home
Genres
Chapter Books, Illness & Injury, Stories Set in Europe

About this book

Even when surprises come from all directions, Amber Brown is always bold, bright, and colorful. #Amber Brown is out now on Apple TV+ It's finally summer and Amber Brown is going to London to visit her aunt Pam and then to Paris to visit with her father. She is one excited kid before she goes. And one itchy kid when she arrives. Mosquito bites, she thinks. Chicken pox, she finds out. Is her vacation completely ruined?

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And now that she can't go to Paris, how will she be able to convince her dad to move back home?

Vacation, Interrupted

A lively summer mishap brings illness and family hopes into the same child-sized tangle.

Come here for

  • The comic contrast between big vacation plans and an itchy surprise
  • A child’s hopes about seeing her father

Expect

  • A bright, accessible story about illness disrupting summer plans
  • Family feelings alongside the vacation trouble

Where it sits

Illness & Injury36%
Chapter Books30%
Stories Set in Europe30%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Parent-Child Stories
  • Stories Set in Europe
  • Chapter Books
Authors
Paula Danziger
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Published
September 7, 2006
Format
Paperback
Theme
Illness disrupting plans · Wanting a parent to move back home
Reading lane
Parent-Child Stories