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Mophead : how your difference makes a difference / by Selina Tusitala Marsh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marsh, Selina Tusitala, author, illustrator.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Difference (Psychology)--Juvenile literature.
- Difference (Psychology).
- Individuality--Juvenile literature.
- Individuality.
- Racism--New Zealand--Juvenile literature.
- Racism.
- Hair--Social aspects--Juvenile literature.
- Hair.
- Poets, New Zealand--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Poets, New Zealand.
- Pacific Islanders--New Zealand--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Pacific Islanders.
- Hair--Social aspects.
- Marsh, Selina Tusitala--Juvenile literature.
- Marsh, Selina Tusitala.
- New Zealand.
- Genre:
- Picture book for children.
- Graphic novels.
- Biographies.
- Juvenile works.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 88 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "A moving graphic memoir of growing up Pasifika in New Zealand ... At school, Selina is ridiculed for her big, frizzy hair. Kids call her 'mophead'. She ties her hair up this way and that way and tries to fit in. Until one day - Sam Hunt plays a role - Selina gives up the game. She decides to let her hair out, to embrace her difference, to be WILD! Selina takes us through special moments in her extraordinary life. She becomes one of the first Pasifika women to hold a PhD. She reads for the Queen of England and Samoan royalty. She meets Barack Obama. And then she is named the New Zealand Poet Laureate. She picks up her special tokotoko, and notices something. It has wild hair coming out the end. It looks like a mop. A kid on the Waiheke ferry teases her about it. So she tells him a story . . ."--Publisher information.
- Notes:
- New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Winner 2020
- New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction Winner 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781869408985
- 1869408985
- OCLC:
- 1108854083
- Publisher Number:
- 99987065216
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