Bippity Bop Barbershop - Hardcover

Tarpley, Natasha Anastasia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316522848 ISBN 13: 9780316522847

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2002

Synopsis

In this companion book to the bestselling "I Love My Hair!, " a young boy, Miles, makes his first trip to the barbershop with his father. With the support of his dad, the barber, and the other men in the barbershop, Miles bravely sits through his first haircut.

About this title

About the Author:

Natasha Anastasia Tarpley is the author of I Love My Hair!, winner of the 1999 Blackboard Children's Book of the Year Award. She lives in New York City. E.B. Lewis is the winner of two Coretta Scott King Honor Awards. He lives in Folsom, New Jersey.

From School Library Journal:

Kindergarten-Grade 2-Rites of passage in a child's life are appealing subjects for picture books, and that is the case in this tale of a boy's first haircut. Tarpley's I Love My Hair! (Little, Brown, 1998) celebrates the positive self-image and cultural identity of African-American girls, and Bippity Bop does the same for boys. Miles is nervous about visiting the barber for his first "official" haircut; he's afraid that the buzzing clippers will hurt, and he doesn't know what kind of cut to request. The descriptions of Miles trying to be "brave" are labored and unconvincing. Happily, the resolution of his hairstyle dilemma rings true: he selects a cut just like his daddy's. Miles and Dad leave the shop with identical haircuts, sharing high-fives, "two cool cats" walking to the rhythm of a "bippity bop" beat. Lewis's delightfully fluid watercolor illustrations get everything just right. The book is filled with cheerful and loving scenes of home and community, and remarkably expressive portrayals of men going about their business, tending shop, or awaiting their turns in the barber chair. With its depictions of dreadlocks, Afros, and even gleaming bald pates, Bippety Bop adds diversity to the small but growing niche of multicultural books that celebrate hair.

Mary Ann Carcich, Mattituck-Laurel Public Library, Mattituck, NY

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About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0316522848
• ISBN 13: 9780316522847
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Lewis E. B.