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Hair In Funny Places

By Babette Cole
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Hair In Funny Places by Babette Cole is a humorous children's book that introduces young readers to the changes their bodies will undergo during puberty. Through entertaining illustrations and light-hearted narrative, it explores the physical and emotional developments that occur as children grow older, making the topic approachable and engaging for kids.
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You might enjoy this book if you're looking for a playful and humorous exploration of the changes children experience as they grow up. With Babette Cole's unique and witty illustrations and storytelling, this delightful read provides a light-hearted way to introduce kids to puberty and the funny, sometimes bewildering bodily changes that come with it.

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Girls and boys are always curious and sometimes even alarmed by the behaviour of their bodies as they grow up. This 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.

The fifth title in Babette Cole's bestselling series of 'family dilemmas'

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The fifth title in Babette Cole's bestselling series of 'family dilemmas'.

Girls and boys are always curious and sometimes even 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 takes the form of a conversation between a small girl and her teddy bear, and is ingenious and funny. It is the behaviour of Mr and Mrs Hormone (wonderfully depicted) which is responsible for and plays havoc with the physical and emotional states of girls and boys throughout puberty.

This 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.

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Hair In Funny Places by Babette Cole is praised as a classic picture book that addresses the topic of puberty in an engaging and approachable manner. The book receives commendations for its humorous and straightforward exploration of a subject that is often considered challenging for both children and parents to discuss.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780099266266

Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 October 2001

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Red Fox

Illustration: 32

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 3.0mm

Width: 246.0mm

Height: 250.0mm

Weight: 194g

Pages: 32

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Babette Cole Children's Books Children's Picture Books Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Penguin Books

About the Author

Babette Cole was born in Jersey in the Channel Islands. She graduated from Canterbury College of Art in 1973 and was the illustrator and author of more than 150 witty, imaginative, irreverent and thought-provoking picture books for children including the bestselling, stereotype-defying Princess Smartypants. She produced animated storyboards for the BBC and illustrated numerous greetings cards and books by other authors as well as her own. Babette adored the countryside and was a keen horse rider and breeder. She spent much of her life in Lincolnshire, before moving to Kent and then westward through Dorset, Devon and Cornwall.

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