This Monster Needs a Haircut

by Bethany Barton

Overview

Introducing a lovable monster with a hairy problem

Stewart is a monster. He has wild, crazy, messy hair that's perfect for scaring, collecting spiders, and hiding after-school treats. But when Stewart's hair grows so long that things start getting lost in it, his parents decide it's time to intervene. Stewart disagrees. His hair is awesome! But when Stewart's hair keeps him from doing his very favorite thing, he realizes it might be time to reconsider.

With slyly funny text and uproarious illustrations, this humorous account of a much-feared experience is a must-have for every monster--and every child, too.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101644034
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	07/05/2012
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	14 MB
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Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Bethany Barton's art has been featured in numerous films and television commercials, as well as in gallery shows and installments around California. She lives and works (making art and painting sets) in Los Angeles, California. This is her first book.

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From the Publisher

Visually energetic but unsophisticated, with pedestrian text, this may be selected more by parents hoping the humor will coax their kids into a haircut than by the kids themselves. "Why, hello! This is Stewart. Stewart is a monster," plods the opening. An arrow points to Stewart, whose hair is green, curly, wavy and wild. Skinny, curling tendrils of hair supplement bold black outlines; Barton's mixture of thick and thin lines is the best part of her loose, freewheeling ink illustrations. Being a monster, Stewart "loves all the things that monsters love," including spiders (for hair decoration and play) and helicopters (for eating). Stewart's ever-lengthening hair is an obstacle. It blocks classmates' view of the (tolerably funny) school blackboard: "Tonight's homework: find human homework and eat it!" Candy, crayons and keys disappear into the unruly green coiffure. Stewart's parents believe it's haircut time, but the decision is Stewart's, and he resists. Not until his prowess at frightening others becomes compromised does Stewart fold, chopping the green locks down to a popular, spiky "scare-cut." It's fitting that inability to incite fear feels intolerable to a monster, but some adults will cringe at the fact that Stewart—previously confident—changes his hairstyle specifically because other characters laugh at him. Neither terrible nor terribly interesting; Elivia Savadier's No Haircut To EWSLUGp2005 is a more distilled treatment of the same subject. (Picture book. 3-5)

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