A lovely, creative story about a right to choose and be accepted for your choices and appearance with great representation throughout.

An odd rhymed piece, this has a lad laud the virtues of his own hair, which is as long as this, as strong as that, as fierce as the other. The visuals, meanwhile, provide a narrative in the background to these lyrics, as it forms into a kind of reverse Rapunzel – the long-haired hero swooping into the guarded tower and getting the princely knight out. You just know this is some kind of woke 'just let me be me, whatever I look like' lesson, but it seems that long hair is a good disguise for it, as it doesn't force that issue upon the reader. That said, it doesn't really do much of anything else, either.

This was a lovely picture book highlighting that is is OK, if not brilliant to be different! It's about a young boy who has long hair and knows it makes him different, that some people might stare. But he uses rhyming prose and delightful descriptions of adventure and nature to show why he loves his hair and why it is amazing to be different. The illustrations are gorgeous and the writing conjures up so many beautiful images.
This will be a great book to open up discussions about how people can express themselves and why it is OK to be different from others.

Told from the point of view of the boy with long hair, it starts with his acknowledgement to others that he knows they may not understand why he has long hair from the way the look and stare.

He doesn’t let this deter or stop him from being who he wants to be and instead shows you how amazing being different can be!

This is a picture book that celebrates and embraces the fun in being unique and different. It will help children develop understanding of others and the confidence to be themselves.

A great book to explore when teaching about similes too - there are so many brilliant examples throughout.

When I saw this book I thought it was a fantastic idea to try and normalise boys with long hair. Nothing really, but especially not hair lengths or styles, should be gendered but they have always been seen that way unfortunately. As far as I'm aware I do think it's a lot better now but this book will definitely help to improve it even further.
A young boy with long hair describes (in lovely rhyming prose) how his hair is a part of him and compares it to various forces of nature, of course including a river. The fact his hair makes feel safe and strong is much more important than the fact that "long hair is girly". I also loved the wide range of representation in the other children listening to him and learning about his hair.

Thank you so much to Macmillan Children’s Books and Netgalley for the ebook to read and review.

The story was really lovely, a young boy has long hair and people don’t get why, so he shares his story full of imagination on what his hair means to him. I loved how vivid the description was about his hair, how much it truly meant to him, how it was his comfort and safe place, It was so precious.

I also loved the illustrations that went with this story they shared everything he was talking about including all his friends as they had an adventure of sorts, seeing exactly what his beautiful long hair could truly be used for. One scene even gave me major rapunzel vibes which I adored. Such beautiful pictures on each page, so imaginative and the things he could do with his hair were amazing.

The book is so creative, so beautiful to look at and so full of heart and love. It’s a great book for young ones to read and to start understanding that everyone is different and anyone regardless of who they are can style their hair however they are comfortable with, It’s so beautifully written in such a loving delicate way.

This is a short book with cute illustrations and rhyming text, which is a paean of praise to the desire to be different, and be accepted as such.

It can help young children understand an important lesson. Namely, that things that are unusual can often mean mean different things to different people.

And that even if you don't entirely understand something that is unexpected or unusual, it is more important to accept that a person has the right to be different - the way they want to be - than to always need to understand why they are the way they are.