Review: Hannah Bandanna's Hair

Hannah Bandanna's Hair

Written and Illustrated by Nikki Slade Robinson

Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand Limited

ISBN: 978-1-86943-962-0

Summary/Back cover:

Fruffled and Frizzled, teased and tizzled

Knotted and knitted, wholed and whizzled

A little girl battles with her hysterically hazardous hair, until Aunt Tallpoppy comes to the rescue.  Discover what happens to Hannah and her tremendous tresses.

Review:

I have two nieces who have near untameable hair - we call them our little Afropuffs.  When I spotted this book, I knew it would be perfect for them.  

Nikki Slade Robinson is a graduate of Wellington Polytech's Diploma of Visual Communication Design (Illustration) course, which is evident in these gorgeous illustrations, which is mostly drawn with a few still-life additions (Hannah's teddybear in particular).

Wildly imaginative adjectives (herbaceous hair!) combine with the illustrations to give Hannah's hair a life of its own.  As she becomes frustrated with it, her Aunt Tallpoppy steps in and shows her how to be proud of her bold, stand out in a crowd hair.  And here we find the lesson of learning to love what you have and to make it work for you.

This wonderful book will appeal to fans of the movie Tangled, bold hair or not, and parents will love the message it conveys. 

5/5

Review written by QTCass