Crazy Hair by Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean, HarperCollins, 2009

 

This story is as brilliant as the title is strange. It's so compelling and engaging and the rhyming so good, you and your kids will be singing, "my crazy hair," before you know it!

It's a journey into one man's literally crazy hair. This very abstract and dream-like story threw me at first, but once I stopped trying to figure it out it became fantasy-like. You could say, "I let my hair down."

In fact, the rhythm reminds me of another kids book, In The City, by Jacob Lawrence and Susan Goldman Rubin. For some reason whenever I read it I hear the cool cat jazz cymbal in my head and I have to read it to the beat like I'm a cool smooth cat. If we met, you'd quickly see I'm not.

Plus, everywhere I look now I see Neil Gaiman kids books and novels. Perplexing. DO NOT MISS THIS.