A Fair Trade Book
Title: The Princess Who Lost Her Hair
Title: The Princess Who Lost Her Hair
Date: 1993
Publisher: Troll Associates
ISBN: 0-8167-2815-1
Length: 32 pages
Illustrations: color paintings by Charles Reasoner
Quote: “Each morning, with the plaits undone and her hair adorned with gold, her handmaidens held her hair up off the ground as the princess strolled from the palace to be admired by her subjects.”
This is a fable about
the virtue of generosity. The princess becomes too vain to share a few hairs
with a needy bird. As a punishment her hair falls out. One of her loyal
subjects sets out to help find the seed of the magic tree that grows hair. We
all know how this kind of story goes. At a certain age children are likely to choose a few stories of this kind and ask adults to read them over and over and over, until they've memorized the words and may be able to use their memory of the words to figure out what the printed letters spell, and until the adults are thoroughly tired of the stories. The Princess Who Lost Her Hair just might be a child's choice so be sure, before buying it, that you can stand to read it a thousand times.
As with many picture
books, the pictures are the main attraction. Reasoner’s are gorgeous. The story
comes from Africa; the setting is a vaguely African-like corner of Fairy Tale
Land, and both trees and people are stylized, but children who like those fashion-type dolls with super-long hair will love the colorful costumes.
Tololwa Mollel is alive, writing, and teaching. He's written fifteen other picture books as well as this one. (It's probably not possible to get all sixteen books into one $5 package, but this web site will try it if you want the lot.) To buy The Princess Who Lost Her Hair as a Fair Trade Book, send $5 per book, $5 per package + $1 per online payment, for a total of $10 by U.S. postal money order to Boxholder, P.O. Box 322, or $11 by Paypal to the address you receive by e-mailing salolianigodagewi @ yahoo, as shown at the bottom of the screen. To add any of Mollel's other books that were published more than ten years ago, list the titles and send, as of today, $5 per additional book.
For each Fair Trade Book this web site mails out, we will send $1 to the author or a charity of his choice...if, that is, the charity of Mollel's choice will take payments of $1. This web site ran into problems last year when a reader purchased a Fair Trade Book by Laura Ingraham, who didn't specify her charity for several weeks and, when she did, specified one with a web site where the minimum payment accepted is $5. Oh, wotthe...why not practice the virtue of generosity? Mollel has written enough slim, light books that you might as well pick ten, send us $55 or $56, and thereby donate $10 to Mollel's charity. The other books aren't about long-haired princesses but they all have pretty pictures too.
To order a doll, or set of dolls, dressed to match a picture in this book, send $10 per doll, $5 per package, $1 per online payment, and specify which page the picture is on.
For each Fair Trade Book this web site mails out, we will send $1 to the author or a charity of his choice...if, that is, the charity of Mollel's choice will take payments of $1. This web site ran into problems last year when a reader purchased a Fair Trade Book by Laura Ingraham, who didn't specify her charity for several weeks and, when she did, specified one with a web site where the minimum payment accepted is $5. Oh, wotthe...why not practice the virtue of generosity? Mollel has written enough slim, light books that you might as well pick ten, send us $55 or $56, and thereby donate $10 to Mollel's charity. The other books aren't about long-haired princesses but they all have pretty pictures too.
To order a doll, or set of dolls, dressed to match a picture in this book, send $10 per doll, $5 per package, $1 per online payment, and specify which page the picture is on.
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