Dalia's Wondrous Hair / El Cabello Maravilloso de Dalia Cover:Hardcover and rhyming text

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the smell of argileh drifting through windows

She never had children

a story that is clear and honest without being didactic

Dalia's Wondrous Hair / El Cabello Maravilloso de Dalia Cover:Hardcover and rhyming textOne night, while Dalia slept safely wrapped in her mother's cool silken sheets, her hair grew and grew. By the time the rooster crowed, her hair had grown straight up to the sky, tall and thick as a Cuban royal palm tree. Her mother was amazed, and wondered what her daughter would do with her wondrous hair. As Dalia looked at the flowers blooming in the garden, an idea sprouted inside her. She decorated her hair with leaves from the forest and mud