5/19/2023 0 Comments This is not my hat book![]() He is also the illustrator of Caroline Stutson’s Cats’ Night Out, winner of the prestigious Governor General’s Award for Illustration. Tough times call for tough picture books. Jon Klassen is the creator of the 2012 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book and New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children’s Book of the Year I Want My Hat Back. It's no surprise that the dominant color of the spreads is black. So I am not worried about that." The spread tells another story the crab betrays the small fish in a heartbeat, pointing to its hiding place, "where the plants are big and tall and close together." Readers hope for the best, but after the big fish darts in, only one of them emerges, sporting the hat. "But he said he wouldn't tell anyone which way I went. From the creator of the 1 New York Times best-selling and award-winning I Want My Hat Back comes a second wry tale.When a tiny fish shoots into view wearing a round blue topper (which happens to fit him perfectly), trouble could be following close behind. ![]() ![]() "There is someone who saw me already," admits the little fish, about a goggle-eyed crab. Klassen excels at using pictures to tell the parts of the story his unreliable narrators omit or evade. ![]() ![]() It's a small gray fish who has stolen a tiny bowler hat from a much larger fish ("It was too small for him anyway," the little fish sniffs. Like Klassen's very funny and much-praised I Want My Hat Back, this story involves a hat theft this time, Klassen ups the ante by having the thief narrate. ![]()
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