No Haircut Today!

I disagree with your disagreement. No one asks for a rigid solution, just something that resembles a resolution, even if that means no solution. The book just sort of conveniently stops, without troubling itself with any suggestion of how one MIGHT deal with the sort of concrete issues that adults and children must face together. The really good books don't force feed you THE solution, right, but at least offer something that resembles more of a story, rather than vague comfort for adults about offering a secure place of safety. It's an ok book, but i've seen better, and we're all entitled to our thoughts about it!

I disagree that NO HAIRCUT is "unfocused" or "lacks depth" as another reviewer thought. That reviewer seems unsetteld because "no solution is offered" and seems to miss the point that an important nurturing and caretaking solution is offered. The solution being to meet your child where he is in his deveopmental fears and challenges, and to offer a safe haven first and foremost.( a haven of love, of humor, of compassion). The solution is to create a solid safe base so that the child can begin to feel secure enough inside himself to move beyond his fears and resistances. That is not done by a rigid "solution" but by trusting that you as parent are initiating a process. For me the pictures, rather than lacking depth and style, showed all the raw emotion that only this loosely penned style can accomplish.

As a parent, sometimes I get so tired of the perfect parents and kids in children's books. Don't you? Well, No Haircut Today! is a funny story with adorable pictures that's much more realistic about the day-to-day relationship between parent and child. It has a lot to say, in a very sweet and approachable way, about love, family, and compromise. Great for younger kids and their parents, too.

Recommended for children ages 2 to 6, No Haircut Today! is an entertainingly written and illustrated picturebook by Elivia Savadier, and tells the warm and charming story of a young, scraggly-haired boy who does not like to get his hair cut. When Dominic sees scissors, he screams! His mother is very upset. But she loves him, and even if he does not get a haircut today, he just might tomorrow! The simple story and the striking, free-form illustrations make No Haircut Today! a charming and memorable storybook for beginning readers.