This Is Not My Hat

Klassen's art is just fabulous and his view of life seems quite quirky! My 7-year-old daughter and I love him! For some reason, this is the last of the hat trilogy for us to read. Klassen's comic timing with his illustrations is superb. He makes subtle changes to the illustrations that actually create a dramatic and humorous impact. We laughed out loud reading this. For example, Klassen shows us a large fish that fills 2 pages in profile with his eye closed. The little fish has just stolen the big fish's hat while he sleeps but we only see the big fish. On the next 2 pages, the little fish is thinking that "he probably won't wake up for a long time" and at that time we are looking at the same picture of the big fish but with his eye open. The next page the little fish thinks that "even if he does wake up, he probably won't notice that it's gone" and without changing anything in the picture except the big fish's eye we know he notices. The big fish's pupil is pointed up toward his head! Then on the next page, the little fish thinks that "even it he does notice that it's gone, he probably won't know it was me who took it." This time Klassen uses the exact same 2-page big fish picture but the fish knowingly narrows his eye. Klassen is just genius to convey so much with so little! We do not see the little fish until 13 pages into the story although the book is entirely from his perspective.My daughter and I hotly debated the end. We know the big fish emerges from the dense plants with his hat back and we no longer hear from the little fish. I am firmly in the little-fish-got-eaten camp but my daughter believes he is hiding in shame. Such fun regardless!

Simple cute and engaging. What more could you want from a children’s book. As always this Klassen book will become a quick Favorite with our little one.

I have this whole series in my classroom and Amy students LOVE it! They think it is so funny and enjoyable! It’s a little quirky but they sit together and read it and laugh all the time!

This book is so cute! The words tell one story but the pictures tell another. I have purchased this as a Christmas gift for my son and I can’t wait to read it to him. I think we will have fun reading it together.

My two daughters, aged 2 and 4, love this book! We first picked it up at the library, and after reading it many many times a day for two weeks straight, I decided to buy it for them. It still is one of the books they like to look at almost daily.The premise is pretty simple: a small fish steals a small hat from a big fish. The words are also pretty simple, but the pictures go along with them speak volumes. My daughters love to contradict what the little fish says by pointing out what's happening in the pictures (me: "...he probably won't wake up" them: "He's awake! He's awake!")I was a little surprised by all the negative reviews saying this book teaches dubious morals about stealing or animals eating other animals. I think that's absurd. My girls understood from the very beginning of this book that stealing isn't OK, and this book has prompted lots of discussions about what you should do if someone steals something (and neither one of them has ever thought killing the thief is the right thing to do!)Anyway, this is a delightful book, and doesn't bore me to death everytime I have to read it! It won it's award based on the artwork, which is show-stopping! I'll be hanging onto this book hopefully for my future grandkids!

This is the sequel to the award winning, "I WANT MY HAT BACK" and is just as charming as the authors first work. I have a two year old that I have been reading "Hat Back: to for 8 months that loves it and now has transitioned to this book as well. What's charming about these books is the subtle adult artistry that kids can pick up as well. Things like just subtle adjustments in the eyeballs of the characters and where they are looking or what angle their head is at are all key and add to the fun of the book.This story ceters around a fish that steals a hat from a big fish that is asleep and thinks that big fish will never know. He runs off with the hat convincing himself that the hat is too small for the other fish and that it's OK that he steal, but immediately after he makes off with the goods, that fish wakes up and decides it's not OK to steal his hat!Again, subtleties abound in this work and the previous one that I myself did not get until reading these books numerous times. There is so much room to expand on these stories on each page as well that it's really part of the fun. What do you think that fish is thinking about!? Is a common question we are asking. If you are a creative reader with your kids-this will allow you to expand that significantly and have fun while doing so! A must for the two year old along with I Want My Hat Back.

This is such a cute children’s book. My great- grandson had bingo to play over Spring break. This was one of the books he could read. We just loved

Makes kids laugh! A good giggle. Not many words.