The Hairdo That Got Away by Joseph Coelho

The Hairdo That Got Away by Joseph CoelhoOnce a month, Dad takes his son to the barbers, come rain or shine. But when Dad disappears, this little boy's hair grows big, ginormous, out of control and so do his feelings. A touching and melodic story of family separation from a child's perspective from the author illustrator duo who brought us the Amnesty International recommended picture book Luna Loves Library Day.

tall trees

First written down in the eighth century AD

Angelou's words and Basquiat's paintings create a place where every child

or evocative plant words

one made up of shady cops on the take

with footnotes indicating the textual variants from the first volume edition of 1916 - has spawned a great number of adaptations

all once promising

Half a million Irish men and women left these shores in the nineteen-fifties

grief and the hardest of times

FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCH

and people striving to get by

A former slave and one of the most powerful orators of her time