Mop Top

by Don Freeman

Book Overview

For use in schools and libraries only. A young boy finally agrees to have his hair cut when a nearsighted lady mistakes him for a mop. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140503269
• Release Date: December 1978
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Great memories

Loved the book as a child. Remembered the story. Bought it for my Mop Top grandson.

Mop Top

Every bit as good as I remeber from childhood. Was excited to find this classic and share it with my grand daughter.

A classic favorite

This was a favorite of mine from my own childhood and when I had children I got it for them and they loved it as well. Simple, sweet, funny and appealing...wonderful for the preschool/kindergarten set. After reading this book my 3 year old son told his friend's mother that she could "mop a floor with that head" when she was showing off her new perm! Delightful book!

Beatle Influence!

I have loved this book since I was 5 and still have my treasured copy. The appeal for me was partly because of the title as the Beatles were nicknamed the Moptops. Martin, nicknamed "Moptop" (can't get past that Beatle influence)! refuses to get a haircut. When sent to the local barbershop, the boy whose hair was longer than any Beatle and wasn't even brushed or styled (and theirs WAS), hides in a store behind a mop barrel. A woman with reading glasses reaches into the barrel, thinking she's getting a mop and instead, gets the boy! Yowling with pain, the boy races off to the barbershop. While he's there, other things are being cut back as well -- the hedges; the newly mowed lawn; a dog was clipped as well as a tree. Too bad the boy didn't have his hair Beatle coiffed! While the boy looked better before the haircut, Beatle fans especially will appreciate this one!

Mop Top

I like the story because the little boy in the story had a mop for a head.Thay called him that because his hair looks bad. That sounded like me. I like the story a lot because the boy loved his mother very much to do this for her.

Mop Top

This is a wonderful book about a little boy who tries to avoid getting a haircut and ends up finding difficulties that are much worse. Our English babysitter read MOP TOP to my brothers when we were children over 30 years ago. It is still my brothers' all time favorite childrens book. My children have great memories of MOPTOP. Now I am sending it to my brand new nephew. MOP TOP is a boy children will want to hear about over and over again, and the story will become a treasured childhood memory.