No doubt about it, Oliver's having a very bad hair day. His parents and sister try to help. They push, they pull, they spritz and they spray; they goop, they glop, and they mousse. But Oliver's hair is still way out of control. And today's class picture day!

No doubt about it, Oliver's having a very bad hair day. His parents and sister try to help. They push, they pull, they spritz and they spray; they goop, they glop, and they mousse. But Oliver's hair is still way out of control. And today's class picture day!
What's a boy to do?

Summary: Oliver woke up with the worst bedhead. The book continues with his misadventure in the morning and finding out that it is picture day at school.
Genre Critique: Contemporary Realistic Fiction; The main character has a bad hair day which is a realistic situation. The characters are imaginary, but could be real. I think that Oliver is based on the author's son though, because the book is dedicated to him. ( )

I liked this book, because of all the detail that was given to describe how bad the main characters hair was. I disliked the book, because at times, it was very wordy, and I felt like I couldn't take a break at some points to breathe. I also liked how a lot of the words made noises in the story, and that helped out with the actual topic of the story. The main message of this story would be is, what will be will be. ( )

I read this book aloud to students 2nd grade and younger, maybe some a little older and they loved it as did I! This book talks about how a little boy has some crazy hair and he doesn't know how to fix it. It just gets worse and worse as he tries to gel it or put some water on it. After I read this book, I had the students draw me a picture of what they thought the book demonstrated. I didn't show them the illustrations right away. I would read the page, give them a minute to think about what the illustrations might look like and have them use their imagination and then I would show them the actual illustration. That helped students be creative and create their own illustrations to follow the book.