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My Special Hair
Candice Dingwall
CC BY 4.0Credits & Licence
Originally published by Book Dash. Writer: Candice Dingwall. Illustrator: Jess Jardim-Wedepohl. Designer: Renate van Rensburg. Editor: Kelly Norwood-Young.
Cover resized and converted to WebP; artwork unchanged. Suitabook’s AI guidance is a separate assessment.
Original Book on Book Dash: My Special Hair (opens in a new tab)- Reading
- Take time to look closely at the illustrations and let the child respond to each imagined change. You could then compare the story’s playful ideas with real ways hair can look and feel.
- Themes
- Pride in hair and individuality: The child celebrates her own hair and its imagined qualities; the closing lines recognise many kinds of hair and encourage pride. The story clearly supports pride in one’s appearance and treats difference as something to celebrate.
- Worth knowing
- Pay particular attention to Pride in hair and individuality.