It's All Good Hair: The Guide to Styling and Grooming Black Children's Hair

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Summary: Wonderful Book for Girls with Short Hair
Review: My daughter has a short hair (about 3 inches long). When I had my daughter 4 years ago, I had a hard time finding anything that would help me style her short hair. I also had a difficult time trying to find information on how to properly care for her hair. This book has given me wonderful ideas on how to style her hair and also gives detail instructions on how to braid (cornrow) and twist hair. There is even a great chapter on idea of how to style hair when in the swimming pool. The book is also written in an easy to read empathetic and supportive style.

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Summary: The book I have been searching for...
Review: Thank you, thank you, thank you. I can empathize with the author, Ms. Collison, I too have been searching for the hairstyle book and the magazine that will lay it out for me. For more than 7 years, and four bi-racial children later (two boys and two girls), I had yet to find such a book. This book is truly the start of something good. It goes into detail, but not too much detail, how to care for a variety of hair textures "from bone straight to wavy, to tightly coiled and everything in between" (pg. 13). It covers parting to combing to cornrows, twists and braiding. It also covers some basic style for boys. I loved her personal stories, her own and contributors as well. I also appreciate how we are reminded to tell our daughters that they are beautiful and smart as we spend time together combing and styling their hair. As a librarian, I will be praising this book to all who walk through our doors and I look forward to the sequel. Way to go!

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Summary: The title alone was enough 4me 2 buy the book 4 my daughter
Review: This book had excellent sources of information. I had been having difficultly making my daughter happy with my hair styles. My daughter went through the episode where she wanted long wavy hair like her best friend with "GOOD" hair. Trying to make my 9 yr. old daughter happy. I let her get her hair braided with extentions. They looked horrible. I immediatly took them out. My daughter had naturally beautiful hair, just not long and bone straight. I used to put her hair in the cutest pony tails, but I was pulling her edges too much, and her edges began to break. This book confirmed my thoughts about my theory of my daughters edges. Then I gave my daughter a perm so that I could maintain her hair without pulling on it so much to make it smooth. My daughter was so scared to get a perm because a idiot relative had told her that perms made your hair fall out. She cried like a baby as I was perming her hair. So I made her a promise that we would take extra care in her hair so that it would fall out. And that is what we have been doing with taking more time after shampoos to condition it. But I thought that maybe I shouldn't perm it as often as the perm said to help from breakage. Well this book dumped that theory right in the water. Lastly I was always afraid to use rubber bands in her hair because I thought it would break off her hair. I gave her individual twist which would never last long at all. After reading the book I decided to give twist with rubber bands at the base of the scalp. This style came out so cute. And now I know that all I have to do is cut the rubber bands out to prevent breakage.

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Summary: Great Book for adults too...
Review: This book is by far the best book I have seen concerning black childrens hair. I am very much impressed with the author for being so real and down to earth about the subject. The illustrations put you through a thinking process as you attempt each style. My daughter picks out the hairstyle she wants me to out of this book, this is a great book

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Summary: Thanks for this book!
Review: This book is well written, easy to follow, and has practical advice. I liked that it contained personal stories from a lot of different people, with different reasons for needing this book. It made me feel less like an outsider. I am the adoptive mother of a bi-racial daughter. She loves the pictures and is finally excited about doing her hair!

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Summary: Great Book!!! VERY Helpful!
Review: This book was excellent. It is a comprehensive and quick read (30 min). I agree with another review that the pictures could have been more clear and more of them. My daughter is biracial and has BEAUTIFUL hair but because she is still so young we keep it up all the time to keep it from getting frizzy and tangled. It is easy to get in a rut of doing the same style all the time. This book gives good ideas and helps me to be more creative with her hair by building on or modifying one of the basic hairstyles shown in the book. After I wash her hair we get out the book and I let her pick out a "do". For us, doing hair has gone from a dreaded chore to something creative and fun. I only wish there were more resources like this one.

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Summary: A good start to taking care of Children's hair.
Review: This is one of the best how to books I have seen in awhile. It tells the tales that all of women have gone through at one time or another as girls. It gives you the strength to hold out on that relaxer. This is what alot of us need to hear. Kudos Michele

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Summary: Saving Time and Money
Review: Well as a single mother I really do not have time to take my daughter to get her hair done. So I needed something to guide me.
Other books just did not provide the insight that this one does. The step-by-step illustrations do help.

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Summary: Start with the kids section
Review: You would think looking on the internet for a book or class on hair braiding would be easy, but I never realised just how much work it would take!!! I saw hair braiding classes for thousands of dollars, i saw expensive videos for hundreds of dollars, but i kept looking for a book with simple instructions on cornrows and simple styles: this book gave me just that. granted it is not always as easy as the author makes it seem - living in a society with the little tight-curled hair i have can be challenging!- but the instructions are easy to follow and the styles look wonderful. We need more books like this!