My oldest granddaughter, Katelyn, is a little redhead.  She was born here in Fargo with lots of dark, almost black hair, but by her three month pictures you could see that her hair was already turning a beautiful shade of light auburn.     

It didn’t surprise me that I had a grandchild with red hair because I have a sister, a grandmother and great-aunt with red hair.  I just assumed Katelyn had gotten that “redhead” gene from my side of the family.  

When Katelyn was 2 (she’s 3 now), my daughter and her husband received a request to have Katelyn’s picture published in a children’s book titled, “Little Redheads Across America”.  They were more than happy to oblige.  The author of this book, Nicole Giladi, received over 2,500 hundred submissions from across the nation, and only 400 redhead children were chosen for the book.  

After the book came out, I received another surprise.  It turns out that red hair comes from a recessive gene, which means that both of Katelyn’s parents had to have red hair in their family history in order for her to have received her auburn colored locks.  And here I was taking full credit for them! 

I learned many other things from reading the book.  Like, redheads make up only 2-4% of the US population.  Or, there are more left-handed children among redheads.  I could go on and on.  But I want you to see the full spread of pictures and facts in this 88-page hardcover book that the author describes as a “children’s coffee table book”.  It has a picture of a redheaded child from all 50 states.  

So if you are like the author or myself, and have a special someone in your life who is a redhead, you both will enjoy this book put out by Redhead Publishing.     

This book can be purchased at the author’s web site  for $29.99.

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