Summary
Hair twins is a celebration of the bond between a Sikh father and his daughter. Each morning, Papa does his daughters hair. Sometimes Papa puts his daughters hair in braids and other times he puts her hair in a bun, just like his! They call that the twin hair look and say, “Hair Cheers!” They go to the park with their hair done differently, and while every has different styles of hair, they are al included and celebrated.
Theme(s):
Family, Traditions, Love
Personal Response
This story made me feel good! It’s about diversity, family, relationships, and self-love. This showed me that people do their hair with their religion in mind. The fact that the father and daughter do this together makes it even more heart felt. I enjoy the diversity in the illustrations as well. There were different people with so many different hairstyles and some kids even had two moms or two dads! This book does more than discuss diversity, it also shows how different peoples lifestyles are.
Teaching Ideas
After reading this story with students, a fun and heart warming way to teach this lesson is to have the students write and draw a tradition that they share with their moms, dads, brothers, sisters, grandmas, grandpas, cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. It can be a haircut or hairstyle, similar to the story we just read! It could be food that you both like and cook together, drawing similarly, anything that is shared by a loved one and celebrates the students culture!
Recommended Reading Level
Birth-PreK, Grade 01, Grade 02, Grade 03
