I Want My Hat Back
by Jon Klassen
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“@LynnaOdel @KetanJ0 @MaryHeglar This book is a stone cold masterpiece | @reina_sabah @HarmitMalik That’s my favorite book! | @tomjrowley @BackstoryLdn Best children’s book for younger kids (under 3) is Peepo! Best for slightly older (say 46) is I Want My Hat Back. Which is darkly comic and gorgeously illustrated.”
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Picture, For 2 Year Olds, and Fiction.
A picturebook delight by a rising talent tells a cumulative tale with a mischievous twist.The bears hat is gone, and he wants it back. Patiently and politely, he asks the animals he comes across, one by one, whether they have seen it. Each animal says no, some more elaborately than others. But just as the bear begins to despond, a deer comes by an...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Picture, For 2 Year Olds, and Fiction.
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“@LynnaOdel @KetanJ0 @MaryHeglar This book is a stone cold masterpiece | @reina_sabah @HarmitMalik That’s my favorite book! | @tomjrowley @BackstoryLdn Best children’s book for younger kids (under 3) is Peepo! Best for slightly older (say 46) is I Want My Hat Back. Which is darkly comic and gorgeously illustrated.”
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