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"Tired of going to the salon to have her curls straightened every weekend, Marlene slowly learns to embrace her natural curly hair with the help of her best friend and favorite aunt"--

An easy-to-read, rhyming introduction to hair.

Although everyone else keeps telling Amanda how wonderful her long thick hair is, she decides that she doesn't like it.

Gives the topic of hair from the child's perspective.

Sophie loves her long hair, but when it becomes too hard to manage and she decides to get it cut, she finds something generous to do with it. Includes list of organizations that make wigs from donated hair.

A young African American girl describes the different, wonderful ways she can wear her hair.

"When it's not attached to your head, your very own hair takes on a disconcerting quality. Suddenly, it is strange. And yet hair finds its way into all manner of unexpected places, far from our heads, including cosmetics, clothes, ropes, personal and public collections, and even food. Whether treated as waste or as gift, relic, sacred offering or commodity in a billion-dollar industry for wigs and hair extensions, hair has many stories to tell. Collected...

A fanciful account of how two boys get cowlicks in their hair as they sleep.