This is Not My Hat Written and Illustrated by Jon Klassen

This is Not My Hat

Writing and Illustrated by Jon Klassen

Grades: PreK-3

Awards:

• Caldecott Medal (2013)

• Kate Greenaway Medal (2014)

• Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Children’s Picture Book (2013)

• Irma Black Award Nominee (2013)

• OLA Forest of Reading Blue Spruce Award Nominee (2014)

• Premi Llibreter for Àlbum il·lustrat (2014)

 I Want My Hat Back, this story involves a hat theft. A small gray fish has stolen a tiny bowler hat from a much larger fish. He wastes no time or words in confessing his crime as he swims announcing, "This hat is not mine. I just stole it." He continues his narrative with no regrets, but with a bit of rationalizing ("It was too small for him anyway.") as he swims to his hiding place, unaware that the big fish is in quiet pursuit. Readers, of course, are in on this little secret. When the two disappear into a spread filled with seaweed, the narration goes silent, and youngsters can easily surmise what happens as the big fish reemerges with the tiny blue bowler atop his head.