Title: Crazy Hair
Author: Neil Gaiman
Illustrator: Dave McKean
Publisher: Bloomsbury, $15.99 RRP
Publication Date: July 2010
Format: Softcover
ISBN: 9780747595991
For ages: 4 - 8
Type: Picture Book
About: Prolific writer Neil Gaiman has coupled with illustrator Dave McKean in this quite surreal picture book about a guy with such crazy, out of control hair - a thatch so mad crazy - it seemingly inhabits an entire world of other worlds... from jungles with tigers and bears and explorers to African dancers and great pirate sloops, sailing the high, unbrushed seas.
When a young Bonnie insists this wild hair must be tamed, she too is hauled into this mystic world contained atop his unruly head - and so lives out her days in storybook splendour, teaching lions how to rhyme, and riding slides and great balloons (all depicted in perfect, retro line-drawing renditions).
Wildly imaginative and gorgeously rhyming (...and well done rhyming), this book is just pure fun - with an edgy twist that will attract slightly older readers (and adults, of course). It's no wonder it was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal.
