Girls and Boys are always curious and even sometimes alarmed by the behaviour of their bodies as they grow up. Puberty being a particularly unsettling time, Babette Cole has made this the subject of the fifth title in her bestselling series of family dilemmas. Who else but Babette would have the temerity to tackle this subject in a picture book and the genius to carry it off! In Hair In Funny Places her artwork is without exaggeration some of the best she has ever done. It is brilliant. The text which takes the form of a conversation between a...Read more
Girls and Boys are always curious and even sometimes alarmed by the behaviour of their bodies as they grow up. Puberty being a particularly unsettling time, Babette Cole has made this the subject of the fifth title in her bestselling series of family dilemmas. Who else but Babette would have the temerity to tackle this subject in a picture book and the genius to carry it off! In Hair In Funny Places her artwork is without exaggeration some of the best she has ever done. It is brilliant. The text which takes the form of a conversation between a small girl and her teddy bear is ingenious and funny - it is the behaviour of Mr and Mrs Hormone (wonderfully depicted) which is responsible for and plays havoc with both physical and emotional states of girls and boys between (roughly) the ages of eight and eighteen. The book is bound to be controversial but babette has never taken the conventional path and her readers love her for her outrageous approach to little mentioned topics.
- ISBN10 0224049402
- ISBN13 9780224049405
- Publish Date 7 October 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 May 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Edition Limited signed edition
- Format Hardcover
- Language English
