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Language English Pages 40 pp Illustrator Jon Klassen | 4.2/5 Goodreads Publication date 2012 Originally published 9 October 2012 Genre Picture book | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This is not my hat by jon klassen
This is Not My Hat is a 2012 children's picture book by the Canadian author and illustrator Jon Klassen. It was originally published in 2012 by Candlewick Press. Klassen won the annual Caldecott Medal in 2013 for illustration and the British Kate Greenaway Medal for children's book illustration. Klassen is the first person to win both awards for the same work.
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Description
This is Not My Hat is a small format paperback book measuring 11.3 x 0.4 x 8.2 inches in dimension.
Critical reception
This is Not My Hat received favorable reviews including Kirkus Reviews describing it as a "darkly comic haberdashery whodunit" with "sublime book design", Common Sense Media calling it "slyly funny", and Publishers Weekly writing "Klassen excels at using pictures to tell the parts of the story his unreliable narrators omit or evade." and concluding "Tough times call for tough picture books." The School Library Journal wrote "This not-to-be-missed title will delight children again and again." It was the winner of the 2013 Caldecott Medal and of the 2014 Kate Greenaway Medal. From the creator of the #1 New York Times best-selling and award-winning I Want My Hat Back comes a second wry tale.
Plot
A small fish has stolen a hat from a big sleeping fish, and boasts about how easy it will be for him to get away with the theft, because the big fish will not wake up any time soon. Except it does.
The story echoes the plot of Klassen's earlier book, I Want My Hat Back, in which a bear is looking for his missing hat, and finally finds it on the head of the rabbit who has stolen it. This is Not My Hat reverses the viewpoint of the story, but with similar results.