Ever had Hair Envy? First grader Emily Blair hates her hair. It's just too darned straight! She ties grapevines tendrils to to head, eats carrot curls, rubs heads with a poodle, makes a wish on the tail of a pig, and makes a wig our of macaroni, but nothing works. Even when she puts it in rollers, it won't hold a curl, so when she finds a new friend, Pamela Paine, "whose whole head rippled with golden waves," she is in pretend beauty parlor heaven.
Emily creates a whole set of gorgeous hairstyles for Pamela, each to match a different glamorous personality. But when Pamela asks for a braid, Emily can't quite make it work because Pamela's hair is TOO curly. So Pamela offers to braid Emily's hair and they discover that Emily has perfect hair for braiding.
Emily learns to braid her own hair and creates intricate braids to match her many personas - and voila - Emily loves her very straight hair.
Little girls will love this story - the whimsical illustrations put the reader right in the center of the first grade beauty shop chaos. Parents will appreciate the light lesson that the grass isn't always greener on the other side.
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