SOCIAL SCIENCES
Swain, Ruth Freeman

Hairdo!: What We Do and Did to Our Hair

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Cat Bowman Smith. This beginning history offers interesting tidbits about Henry VIII, Louis XIV, the wigs of the eighteenth century, the squash blossom hairdos of young Hopi girls, and Lincoln's beard. The lighthearted illustrations provide amusing caricatures. A compendium of "Hairy Information" provides a few scientific facts about hair. Some documentation for the text would have been helpful. Bib.

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