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When Dad's Hair Took Off

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

When Dad's Hair Took Off

Contributors:

By (Author) Jrg Mhle
Illustrated by Jrg Mhle

ISBN:

9781776575213

Publisher:

Gecko Press

Imprint:

Gecko Press

Publication Date:

7th June 2023

UK Publication Date:

1st May 2023

Country:

New Zealand

Classifications

Readership:

Children

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Other Subjects:

Graphic novels
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Stories in translation

Dewey:

833.92

Prizes:

Winner of White Ravens Award 2022

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

72

Dimensions:

Width 150mm, Height 210mm

Description

A fast-paced, comical story for early readers, in which Dads hair takes off through the open window to freedom!

One day, Dads hair decided it was tired of being brushed and combed. It wanted a life of its own, to see the world. It took off.

Out of the bathroom, into the kitchen, and before you could say, Hairsta la vista, baby! it was gone.

Dad gave chase around the town. He spots his hair hiding in the lawn, on the road, at the zoo its amazing how many things look like hair. He gives up.

Dad tries to accept life without hair. Then the postcards arrive. The hair is on a round-the-world trip and Dad is still bald. Until one day the unbelievable happens and the hair comes back.

This is a fast-paced tour-de-force, a wonderfully absurd story packed with wordplay and full colour hilarious illustrations.

When Dads Hair Took Off is a comical chapter book for early readers or for any child to enjoy reading aloud with a grownup who relates! A fun book to celebrate and share with Dad on Fathers Day or any day.

Translated from the German edition by Melody Shaw, where it was shortlisted for multiple awards.

Jrg Mhle studied illustration in Offenbach and Paris. He has been illustrating for books and magazines since 2000. He is the author and illustrator of worldwide bestselling interactive bedtime book for toddlers, Tickle My Ears.

Author Bio

Jrg Mhle was born 1973 in Frankfurt am Main and studied at the Offenbach School of Design and the cole Nationale Suprieure des Arts Dcoratifs in Paris. He has been a freelance illustrator since 2000, and held a temporary professorship at the Fachhochschule in Mainz. Today, he lives in Frankfurt where he works as a freelance illustrator for book publishers, magazines and newspapers.

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