Wanda and the Wild Hair

Children's Bookwatch, April, 2005

Wanda And The Wild Hair

Barbara Azore & Georgia Graham

Tundra Books

PO Box 1030, Plattsburgh, NY 12901

www.tundrabooks.com

0887767176 $15.95 1-800-788-1074

Marvelously and energetically illustrated in full color by Georgia Graham, Wanda And The Wild Hair is the debut picturebook story of Barbara Azore for the enjoyment of preschool children ages 3 to 6. Wanda And The Wild Hair is about a young girl who loves the wild look of her hair dearly, even though her mother nags her to wash it and her teacher threatens to have the principal cut it off. A series of accidents and messes leave Wanda's hair in worse shape than usual, with twigs and branches in it--it's almost a bush! She has to get it cut and styled, but whispers to herself, "don't worry, it will grow again". Humorous chalk pastle illustrations bring hair out of control to exuberant life, practically popping off the page in cartoony splendor.