Crazy Hair

Crazy Hair by Neil Gaiman and David McKean is a book about a man with really crazy hair that has never been cut.  A girl suggests that he take a comb to his hair, and he tells her in rhyming fashion why this is not possible.  His hair is the home for all sorts of creatures and objects - carousels, pirate ships, blue octopi, birds and comb-eating bears.  When the girl decides to comb his hair, a huge arm pulls her into that crazy hair.  She lives in there quite happily, believe it or not.

I read this book at the library, and questioned whether to bring it home.  I thought it was a little strange, maybe even a bit scary, and I did not think my kids would like it.  I was wrong.  They think it is hysterical!

This book is so unusual that we just had to make a little crazy hair ourselves.  We began by drawing faces and then added some crazy hair.  We also added some crazy creatures to live in the crazy hair.

Here is the face and crazy hair that R drew:

Here it is after she made it really crazy with some curly ribbon and licorice laces for hair, and a few dinosaurs and animals to live in that crazy hair:

For some reason, I did not get a before photo of the face C drew, but here is C's person with crazy hair:

They had fun with this book.  They also had fun eating the licorice laces!