The First Haircut: A Rhyming Read-Aloud About the Very First Haircut (The Very First Time Books, Band 3) - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

A bell goes ding. The door goes wide.

There are combs. There are chairs. There is a thing that hums. And on a hook, three pink capes.

The stranger is tall. The stranger has enormous hands and scissors in a top pocket. And then the stranger says, "Hi, Wren." Which raises the immediate and urgent question of how a total stranger knows a name.

The chair goes up. The cape goes on, and nobody asks, and it is PINK, and Wren's arms go in and stay in, and Wren is now a small pink cone with hair.

Then the mirror. And in the mirror there is a Wren. And standing right behind that Wren, there is someone. Watching. Holding scissors.

Wren does not move. Wren does not breathe.

Until the stranger crouches all the way down beside the chair. Not up. Not over. Down. So four eyes end up level. And says the one thing that makes it possible:

"It's your head. You're only lending it."

Lending isn't giving. Lending means you get it back.

• It is honest about what the fear actually is. It isn't pain. It's a stranger, a sharp thing, and having to hold still and allow it. This book says that out loud instead of pretending haircuts are fun.
• One sentence they can keep. It's your head. You're only lending it. It turns being helpless into an act of choosing, and it works at the dentist, the doctor, and every chair after this one.
• Built to be read out loud. Bouncy verse and a one-word refrain that creeps up on you. Your child will be saying it with you by the second read.
• Track the pink cape. It is the only bright colour in the whole book, and Wren does not get to choose it. That is the joke, and it is also the point.
• Do not close it early. Because tomorrow Pocket has to meet a mender, and a mender has a needle. The last page is the one that gets the grown-ups.
• Ages 4-8. Warm hand-painted illustrations on every spread.

From The Very First Time Books. Big firsts, small hands.

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