![]() ![]() Firstly, the main character is presumably. How many children’s books attempt to put a thief, an alleged murderer and a liar in a picture book And then go on to win internationally acclaimed prices Klassen’s book is scary, and it is scary in different ways. Tough times call for tough picture books. Jon Klassen’s picture book This Is Not My Hat is hilarious, and scary. 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. "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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