Wanda And The Wild Hair

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Blue-eyed freckle-faced Wanda has a problem: she loves her wild hair dearly, but it drives all the adults in her life to distraction. She loves the way it feels when she touches it. She loves the way it looks when she pats it in front of the mirror. But her mother always nags her to wash it, her father wants to take her to the poodle parlour for a trim and her teacher threatens to ask the principal to cut it off. What can poor Wanda do A series of mishaps with a magpie, a cat and a large English sheepdog finally convince Wanda that her beautiful hair has to be changed.

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Marvelously and energetically illustratedHumorous chalk paste illustrations bring hair out of control to exuberant life, practically popping off the page in cartoony splendor.
Childrens Bookwatch

Entertaining illustrations in chalk pastels make the most of Wandas luxuriant hair.
The Horn Book Guide

Author Bio

Barbara Azore was born in England and emigrated to Canada in 1967. From 1970 to 1997 she was employed by the Edmonton Public School Board working in Elementary and Junior High School Libraries. Since retiring, she has had articles published in the Edmonton Journal and Birth Issues. She began writing childrens stories to accompany sweaters that she knit for her grandchildren. Her first published childrens book came about after she entered the Writers Union of Canadas Writing For Children Competition in 1999. Barbara Azore lives in Edmonton, Alberta.

Georgia Graham was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta and has been hooked on chalk pastels since grade four. She graduated from the Alberta College of Art in 1982 and first used her art to entertain children in her Sunday school class. Her published works include A Team Like No Other, The Saturday Appaloosa, Bibi and the Bull, The Strongest Man This Side of Cremona, Tigers New Cowboy Boots and more. Georgia Graham lives with her husband and two children in central Alberta.