Aaron's Hair

Brenda Baltensperger is a playwright, a director of children’s
theatre, an editor of children’s fiction, and the author of Fractured
Fairy-tales.

Aaron is having a really bad hair day. In frustration he yells, “Hair,
I hate you!” His hair responds by running away, with Aaron in hot
pursuit. The hair attaches itself to several people in rapid succession.
One of them is a police officer directing traffic, and the result is an
enormous traffic jam (Munsch cleverly incorporates counting, from ten
down to one, of the various modes of transportation involved in the
traffic jam). When Aaron tries to retrieve his hair from a statue, the
hair runs home and disappears. At dinner a bald and remorseful Aaron
wishes aloud that his hair would come back. The hair, which is hiding on
his father’s head, returns to a grateful Aaron.

This fun-filled fantasy is an ideal read-it-to-me book that will appeal
to preschoolers; it’s colorful, action-filled illustrations will help
them follow the story. Children will learn that it only takes a few
words to hurt somebody’s feelings, even if they don’t really mean
to. Recommended.