The Man Who Lost His Head is a 1942 children's picture book written by Claire Huchet Bishop and illustrated by Robert McCloskey.

The village people see the man with a pumpkin head.

He goes back to the vegetable garden, removes a pumpkin head, and takes a parsnip and carves holes in it and makes a face.

The village people see the man with a parsnip head.

He goes to the woodshed and takes a log and carves a wooden head and makes a face while he sandpapers and polishes it.