Bushyhead - Nash, Peta-Gaye
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Bushyhead is a Canada Book Awards winner. Bushyhead is the story of a young girl, Miranda May, who is teased at school because of her bushy hair. She wishes she had different hair. Her mother takes her to a children's hospital where the children in the ward have no hair. Her mother suggests that Miranda May cut and donate her hair to make wigs for kids who have no hair. They go to the hair salon and the hairdresser cuts Miranda May's hair and donates it. The story is a gentle introduction to the topic of compassion, self-esteem, black hair pride, looking for solutions that help others, and about cancer and hair loss.…mehr

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Bushyhead is a Canada Book Awards winner. Bushyhead is the story of a young girl, Miranda May, who is teased at school because of her bushy hair. She wishes she had different hair. Her mother takes her to a children's hospital where the children in the ward have no hair. Her mother suggests that Miranda May cut and donate her hair to make wigs for kids who have no hair. They go to the hair salon and the hairdresser cuts Miranda May's hair and donates it. The story is a gentle introduction to the topic of compassion, self-esteem, black hair pride, looking for solutions that help others, and about cancer and hair loss.
Autorenporträt
Peta-Gaye Nash is an adult and children's author. She was born in 1968 in Kingston, Jamaica and has also lived in the United States, Norway and Canada. She studied Labour Relations at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario and has made Canada home for the past twenty years. Peta-Gaye wrote her first children's book in 2003 but she put it at the back of her closet because the story didn't have a happy ending. Six years later, Peta-Gaye's story got its happy ending and her first children's book was published. She has seven children's books published and in 2015, she won the Marty Awards for Emerging Literary Art. In 2013, she got an honourable mention for the same award. Peta-Gaye teaches English as a Second Language during the day and writes at night. She lives in Mississauga, Ontario with her husband and four children.