Hair: From Moptops to Mohicans, Afros to Cornrows

This delightful book celebrates hair history, exploring styles and their cultural significance. During the Rococo period, wealthy women adorned their hair with shells, necklaces, fruit, and flowers, styled into towering towers. In 1970s London, punk rockers embraced the 2,000-year-old Native American practice of shaving their heads except for a narrow strip from forehead to neck. Author Katja Spitzer’s colorful illustrations present hair trends and their cultural impact in double-page spreads. Readers learn about the time hair braiders in West Africa spent a day on a client and how Black Americans used their naturally frizzy hair to signal opposition to racist laws.

Filled with history and fun facts, this book encourages self-expression and mutual acceptance, for readers ages 5 to 7.

(This book may contain a sharpie mark on the top or bottom edge and may show mild signs of shelfwear.)