Mumps Mania — Geraldine Ryan-Lush

A boy is sick, and he cannot go to school. He cannot leave his house, he cannot leave his bed: "The Doctor came, he said real slow: IF YOU WANT/ THOSE MUMPS /TO GO/ YOU HAVE TO STAY /IN BED YOU KNOW!" Not this kid! He's having none of it. He keeps escaping, and on each breakout from the suffocating prison walls of his antiseptic bedroom, his crated countenance keeps getting more bizarre, to the puzzlement of the characters he meets along the way, even the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park! Wild things happen in this cumulative , rhyming crescendo, as the Doctor gets Sued, the Media has a Blast, and there is no end in sight to the horrific state of the kid's "bumpy" condition. SCIENTIFIC and MUMPSTERIFIC meet in a hilarious mixture of robotic and zombie juxtaposition as he ends up in Close Encounters of the Virus Kind! How to get out of this one is a futuristic and common sense grid of its own! Illustrated with numerous cartoony washes, and written in Geraldine Ryan-Lush's award-winning, trademark poetic style, this energetic read-aloud is not only an exceptional learn-to-read tool, but the adventurous streak of its timeless escapade serves as the ultimate GREAT ESCAPE from any health woes, especially the worries of the New World Normal!