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Ries, Lori

Punk Wig

32 pp. | Boyds | February, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59078-486-0 $16.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Erin Eitter Kono. After chemotherapy makes her hair fall out, a boy's mother buys a wig. The narrator's voice doesn't always ring true ("My mom's got alien blobs inside her. They're called cancer"), but the story is unsentimental about parents' vulnerability. Ultimately, the book's mood is celebratory; watercolors show mom and son whooping it up at the wig shop.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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