Mophead
how your difference makes a difference
Marsh, Selina Tusitala
creator
author,
illustrator.
text
biography
nz
2019
2019
monographic
eng
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations : 25 cm
"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.
juvenile
by Selina Tusitala Marsh.
u-nz---
Marsh, Selina Tusitala
Children's nonfiction
Difference (Psychology)
Children's nonfiction
Individuality
Children's nonfiction
Racism
New Zealand
Children's nonfiction
Poets, New Zealand
Biography
Children's nonfiction
Pacific Islanders
New Zealand
Biography
Children's nonfiction
NZ821.3 B
9781869408985
1869408985
NZ1
190715
20201209095034.0
99265173109802091
eng