"Crazy Hair": Exciting Pictures, Funny Story
5 of 8 Ciao Users found the following review helpful
Advantages Creative, Inspiring Pictures, Funny Rhyming Story,
Disadvantages Won't necessarily work for young children
This is a picture book by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Dave McKean. Each double page contains double paged illustration of the same style as the cover. A couple of lines of rhyming dialog are on most pages, sometimes in speech bubbles and always printed so as to fit in with the pictures.
The "plot" of the picture book is that a girl meets a man with great tangled long sprawling hair and questions him about it - he responds by saying how great his hair is and we see that an entire ecosystem exists inside it.The writing sounds good and is fun to say, it's somewhat lyrical and rolls off the tongue. The story is funny, imaginative and enjoyable.
What really makes the book worth having though (in my opinion) is the pictures which are stunning and different.The pictures and sing-song rhymes work very well together. I find the book leaves you with the urge to do something creative, they make the world seem full of scray and exciting possibilities.
It's a picture book that will appeal just as much to older children, teenagers and adults as it will to young kids. I was at first of the opinion that younger children wouldn't take it as much as older people because of the styalised illustrations. However I have read several other reviews on other websites that suggest young kids, and even toddlers enjoy this book very much.If you do like it do also check out another picture book by Gaiman and McQueen; "The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish", it's of a very similar style and is very entertaining. They're movie "MirrorMask" also has many of the same qualities.
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