LeVar becomes anchor of a weird and wacky news report, Headline News—all the news from the neck up! It promotes the video theme that silly situations are entertaining and fun. Viewers visit the biggest barbershop in the world to see some wonderfully strange hairdos being created. They also get a sneak preview of a music video.

Review books

Feature Book:

The Lady With the Ship on Her Head

Madame Pompenstance competes for the Best Headdress Award at the Fancy Dress Ball, unaware that a small ship has sailed onto her head and become her headdress.

Author: Deborah Nourse Lattimore
Illustrator: Deborah Nourse Lattimore
Publisher: Harcourt Brace

Moog-Moog Space Barber

Elmo gets a terrible haircut the day before school begins for the year. He makes a trip to outer space to get it fixed by Moog-Moog, the great barber of the universe.

Author: Mark Teague
Illustrator: Mark Teague
Publisher: Scholastic

An Enchanted Hair Tale

A boy named Sudan suffers when people ridicule his strange-looking hair. But, he soon realizes that it is okay to be different, and he comes to accept and enjoy his hair's enchantment.

Author: Mark Teague
Illustrator: Mark Teague
Publisher: Scholastic

The Flyaway Pantaloons

See a bird's-eye view of a Renaissance city as a pair of pantaloons relates how being blown off its clothesline leads to an exciting adventure before returning where it belongs.

Author: Joseph Sharples
Illustrator: Sue Scuallard
Publisher: Lerner Publications