Aaron's Hair - Hardcover

A much-loved storyteller, Robert Munsch is the best-selling author of more than 30 books for children, including The Paper Bag Princess, Love You Forever and Alligator Baby. He makes his home in Guelph, Ontario.
Alan Daniel has been illustrating picture books for 20 years. He has worked with Robert Munsch on Get Out of Bed! and Good Families Don't. He also illustrated Big David, Little David, The Story of Canada, and Sody Salleratus. Alan and his wife, Lea, live and work together in Kitchener, Ontario.

The creators of Get Out of Bed! here offer a rather rootless tale about what happens when a boy, frustrated with his unruly tresses, yells, "Hair, I hate you!" The phrase becomes a refrain as Aaron's hair, its feelings hurt, jumps off his head and affixes itself to various people's body parts, beginning with the head of his baby sibling and including a woman's navel and a man's behind, and finally proceeds to a policeman who can't see to direct traffic when the hair flies onto his face. When each victim yells, "Hair, I hate you!" the hair heads on its way. Though this repetitive refrain and the story's broad humor may attract a few kids, most will find this feckless fare. The illustrators exploit the tale's outlandish visual potential to the level of slapstick sitcom, creating cartoon-style watercolors of Aaron's 1960s-holdover family as well as a Deadhead motorcyclist and a hippie on inline skates. Far from one of this storyteller's glossiest performances. Ages 3-6. (Sept.)
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