Bad Hair Day: Eva and Sadie and the Worst Haircut Ever by by Jeff Cohen

WHEN I FINISHED, I LOOKED DOWN AT THE PILE OF HAIR ON THE FLOOR...
AND THAT'S WHEN THINGS WENT TERRIBLY WRONG.

"SADIE, ARE YOU SURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING?" ASKED EVA.

Standing in the bathroom with Mom's sewing scissors, with a pile of her little sister's blond curls around her feet, Sadie realizes that it might not have been a great idea to give Eva's wild hair a little trim.

It was wild. Eva's hair is lush and has grown down to her tush. It's whirly and twirly, hurly-burly, and way too curly. Her waves work their way out of Mom's tightest braids. Her curly mop escapes from hair thingies, bounces out of barrettes, overwhelms headbands, and brushing only makes it frizzier. Something clearly needed to happen. And Big Sis Sadie, in her sensible brown bob, thinks she knows just what Eva's coiffure calls for.

But now Sadie realizes that Eva's mane is more that she can manage.

SOME PARTS ARE SHORT, AND SOME PARTS ARE LONG.

"THIS IS BAD, BAD BAD!"

BUT EVA LIKES IT.

Sadie knows that she's crossed the haircut Rubicon at this point, in Jeff Cohen's new Eva and Sadie and the Worst Haircut EVER! (HarperCollins, 2014). The impromtu haircut (by sister, best friend, or selfie) is almost a rite of passage of childhood, and Jeff Cohen's comic account of Sadie's growing panic as she feverishly snips and snips to try to even out Eva's haircut, along with Elanna Evans' sympathetic illustrations of the big sister and her complicit little sister, makes for an easy-going finish to this all too common story. Pair this one with the boy-pleasing [ { THIS MONSTER NEEDS A HAIRCUT } ] by Barton, Bethany (AUTHOR) Jul-05-2012 [ Hardcover ] by Bethany Barton.