'Bald is Beautiful: A Letter For A Fabulous Girl is an inspiring and lovely illustrated letter for girls of any age who will go or already are bald. It's a perfect gift to send love to a powerful girl who needs to be reminded how beautiful and loved she is. It's not a book that explains scientific conditions, disease, and treatment. It's about love, beauty, happiness, and friendship when going through various changes in our lives.
'Bald is Beautiful comes like a hug, and it's the perfect gift for girls aged 4-100 years and up.'
Bald is Beautiful: A Letter For A Fabulous Girl isn't your average kids book. You won't find a story about a fun adventure inside these pages, and it's not just designed to be something frivolous to entertain you child before bed. This book has something else to offer.
The book, written by a Paediatric Oncology Phramacist Carola Schmidt, the book is designed to help people coming to terms with hair loss, specifically girls going through cancer treatment. But, this doesn't mean that the book is designed solely for this audience, as the messages within its pages apply to all people who go through hair loss.
Losing your hair can be an emotional thing, especially for girls, women, and female presenting people. Society has set it up so that it's okay for male presenting people to go bald, even if this can cause them distress, but not so for female presenting people. Girls and women can be mocked for losing their hair, made to feel less like people, and sometimes treated less than human. I know this, because I've been through it myself.
This book sets out to remind girls that losing their hair isn't the end for them, that their hair isn't really that important. It tells them that it's not their hair that makes them special or wonderful, but who they are that matters. The book shows them that they can still live their lives, can still have friends and enjoy a good time, whether they have hair on their head, or a scarf, or a hat.
Like I said before, there's not really a narrative structure to the book, it doesn't follow a girl losing her hair and learning to live with it; instead, it talks directly to the reader. It tells them that things are going to be okay. It tells them that they're strong and wonderful and fabulous. It removes the middle-man of the storybook narrative and instead gives positive affirmation and encouragement to those who need it directly.
This isn't a book that everyone's going to pick up, it's not going to be something that every kid is going to need; but for those that do need it, for those that need that positive message and that helping hand it's going to be a book that means a lot. Bald is Beautiful: A Letter For A Fabulous Girl is one of those special books that could actually go on to change lives for the better.
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