The Man Who Lost His Head (New York Review Children's Collection)

About this book

Its bad news when you wake up in the morning and find youve lost your head especially if its an especially agreeable and handsome head but there you go such things happen. In any case the man who loses his head in The Man Who Lost His Head isnt about to grin (that is if he could grin) and bear it. No hell make himself a new one and starting with a pumpkin and moving on to a parsnip and finally picking up a block of wood he sets about getting it just right. Still for all his efforts it somehow isnt right. It isnt the head he had before. It turns out that only a brash bold boy can save the man who lost his head from losing it altogether. Claire Huchet Bishops charming parable is illustrated by the great Robert McCloskey whose books for children include One Morning in Maine Blueberries for Sal and the Caldecott Medalwinning Make Way for Ducklings.