Crazy Hair

Crazy Hair

Neil Gaiman2009
"In my hair Gorillas leap, Tigers stalk, And ground sloths sleep. Prides of lions Make their lair Somewhere in my crazy hair."
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Sarah Sammis@pussreboots
5 stars
Apr 4, 2024

Just around the time I was rediscovering Neil Gaiman, he started writing children's books. I try to snag his picture books when I'm at the library. The latest one I grabbed was Crazy Hair with the deliciously twisted illustrations by Dave McKean. Crazy Hair started as a poem in the vein of Shel Silverstein. But with McKean's illustrations the poem becomes a strangely delightful picture book. Essentially the book is a dialogue between a young girl (perhaps a teen, perhaps just shy of being a teen) and a man with crazy hair (authorial insert?). She asks him about his crazy hair and he explains about all the marvelous and scary things that live in there. In a typical story of this sort, the book would just be a hairy dog story or a tall tale. Gaiman though, he tends to take things to the next step. If there is an alternate world inside in the crazy hair, the girl should experience it first hand. And so she does. So I showed the book to both my children. It's shelved in the books aimed at kids my daughter's age. She, though, wanted no part of the book. Her response was: "Ugh, that book is so you, Mama." Sean, on the other hand, grabbed the book out of my library book bag for a quick read. He and I loved it.

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Stef@faninos
3 stars
Jan 2, 2023

Ah, audiobooknya singkat sih 3 menitan cuman Gaiman as narator ngebawaiinya in kind funny way jadi ga bosen dengerin nya ><

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Ryan LaFerney@ryantlaferney
4 stars
Dec 15, 2022

Love Gaiman. Love McKean. Love Crazy Hair.

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Andrea Pozo@andrepora
3 stars
Dec 18, 2023
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Anika Jugović Spajić@p_anika
3 stars
Oct 7, 2022
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Mirella Hetekivi@euphoricdopamine
3 stars
May 24, 2022
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Akanksha Chattopadhyay@akanksha_chattopadhyay
3 stars
Oct 31, 2021
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Aaron Long@along
5 stars
Jul 26, 2021

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