If Dinosaurs Had Hair
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
This laugh-out-loud picture book by Dan Marvin, with tongue-in-cheek art by Lesley Vamos, is an irreverent exploration of what it might've looked like if dinosaurs had lusciously stylized 'dos.
What if dinosaurs had . . . hair?
Curled, crimped, feathered, and permed, this book imagines the wealth of colors, styles, and hair textures the Jurassic Period might have had to offer. As well as their epic hair warfare.
But as with any great battle, one hairstyle must have risen above the rest—one that literally blew these dinosaurs away . . .
Author Dan Marvin has crafted a hilariously escalating story that begs to be reread, and illustrator Lesley Vamos brings eye-catching dynamic color and personality to this picture book. If Dinosaurs Had Hair brings the dinosaurs back to life in full color.
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Marvin imagines a fashionable world of prehistoric vanity in this commercial exploration of the outlandish titular concept. "Why, if dinosaurs had hair, they must have had parents who brushed it too hard. And siblings who pulled it. And snarls," opens the book, further noting that with locks come "hairstyles," "hair products," and "drama." The latter is in fact so acute it results in "hair warfare" that pits styles and species against one another. As the tension rises, speech bubbles throughout play for salon-gossip laughs unlikely to resonate with the intended age range. Vamos's digital renderings vividly accompany, featuring multi-colored sauropods, cerapods, and the like sporting a range of boldly dyed styles: "From bowl cuts to brush cuts/ to bouffants and braids." An explosive conclusion foregrounds Marvin's punning with a potentially disconcerting cosmic payoff. Ages 3–6.
