Bubbling over with affection, and injecting a strong self-esteem boost for girls, hooks's ebullient, poetic text celebrates the innate beauty and freedom of hair that's ""soft like cotton,/ flower petal billowy soft, full of frizz and fuzz."" Waxing poetic about ""short tight naps"" or ""plaited strands all,"" hooks conjures all the lovely varieties of hairstyles that ""let girls go running free."" She sings the praises of ""girlpie hair,"" subtly reinforcing her theme with a chorus of descriptive words like ""halo"" and ""crown."" She also evokes the intimate warmth of mother-daughter time-""sitting still for hands to brush or braid and make the day start hopefully."" A powerful, uplifting and, above all, buoyantly fun read-aloud, the text receives a superb visual interpretation by Raschka (Like Likes Like).
This joyous ode to hair may well restart conversations that began last year with the controversy over Carolivia Herron's Nappy Hair.
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