No Haircut Today!
PreSchool-K–A touching and playful story about a little boy's fear of getting his hair cut for the first time, and his mom's frustration at having tried everything. Dominic's hair is a mess–short in some spots, long in others, curly here, straight there. His mom cuts and styles hair and makes other people look great, but "When Dominic sees SCISSORS he screams!" The contrast of a minimum amount of rich color centered on a bright white page captures the drama of this time-honored, coming-of-age problem, while the varying sizes of the fonts emphasize the intensity of the fear and frustration felt by Dominic and his mother. When he asks, "MOMMY! Are you mad at me?" (looking a lot like Linus fromPeanuts), they hug, say I love you to one another, and laugh. "No haircut today!...Maybe...tomorrow." Great fun for a read-aloud, and good sharing one-on-one.–Wanda Meyers-Hines, Ridgecrest Elementary School, Huntsville, ALCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.