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6th out of 93 books
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This is Not My Hat
by
Jon Klassen
When a tiny fish shoots into view wearing a round blue topper (which happens to fit him perfectly), trouble could be following close behind. So it's a good thing that enormous fish won't wake up. And even if he does, it's not like he'll ever know what happened...
Visual humor swims to the fore as the best-selling Jon Klassen follows his breakout debut with another deadpan-f...more
Visual humor swims to the fore as the best-selling Jon Klassen follows his breakout debut with another deadpan-f...more
Hardcover, 40 pages
Published
October 9th 2012
by Candlewick
(first published October 1st 2012)
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Nov 23, 2012
Amara
rated it
2 of 5 stars
Recommended to Amara by:
Goodreads Choice Awards 2012 Nominee
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Compared to the hilarity that was I Want My Hat Back, This Is Not My Hat was downright disappointing.
I Want My Hat Back was spectacular because I honestly didn't see the ending coming. I expected your typical kid's book. Main character has a problem, does a few random boring things to try to solve the problem, and then succeeds in solving the problem. But the way I Want My Hat Back ended was so wonderfully unexpected and absurdly amusing that I couldn't help but love it.
This is not the case with...more
I Want My Hat Back was spectacular because I honestly didn't see the ending coming. I expected your typical kid's book. Main character has a problem, does a few random boring things to try to solve the problem, and then succeeds in solving the problem. But the way I Want My Hat Back ended was so wonderfully unexpected and absurdly amusing that I couldn't help but love it.
This is not the case with...more
I guess something is wrong with me because this book has very high ratings on Goodreads and I did really like I Want My Hat Back, but this one left me cold. I did give an extra star because I love the expressiveness shown in the eye of the fishes and the everything about the illustrations is great.
But who would I recommend this for? For a “scared straight” morality tale about the wrongness of stealing? I don’t feel like traumatizing children. I’d like to hear about how young children take this b...more
But who would I recommend this for? For a “scared straight” morality tale about the wrongness of stealing? I don’t feel like traumatizing children. I’d like to hear about how young children take this b...more
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What a terrific little book!
This would touch many of the emotions of every reader, young and old.
The little fish has clearly stolen somebody else's hat. The clue is in the title.
That is very naughty indeed!
But the rightful owner will never find out.
The story is so simple, and the big bonus is that, in the end, there is an easy to understand moral to this fish'stail tale!
This would touch many of the emotions of every reader, young and old.
The little fish has clearly stolen somebody else's hat. The clue is in the title.
That is very naughty indeed!
But the rightful owner will never find out.
The story is so simple, and the big bonus is that, in the end, there is an easy to understand moral to this fish's
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5 + a million stars!
I vividly remember standing at the Candlewick Press booth back in April and finally holding this long-awaited story from Jon Klassen. After the countless discussions and debates I have participated in over I Want My Hat Back, I was beyond ecstatic to be holding This Is Not My Hat. I ran my hand over the cover and took a breath before I actually opened the book. I felt like a five-year-old on her birthday all over again: that moment when you have waited and waited and mingled...more
I vividly remember standing at the Candlewick Press booth back in April and finally holding this long-awaited story from Jon Klassen. After the countless discussions and debates I have participated in over I Want My Hat Back, I was beyond ecstatic to be holding This Is Not My Hat. I ran my hand over the cover and took a breath before I actually opened the book. I felt like a five-year-old on her birthday all over again: that moment when you have waited and waited and mingled...more
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I particularly enjoyed the humor in this book as it told the tale of the small fish who thought he could get away with theft. Just like Jon Klassen’s “I Want My Hat Back”, it carries an underlying message of the immorality of stealing another’s headwear, while providing stimulating images that leave the reader to input their own imagination into certain aspects of the development of the story. This is a story that provides the surface level entertainment of pictures and a funny story for childre...more
This Is Not my Hat is a very simple story about a small fish who steals the hat off the head of a sleeping big fish. He knows it's wrong to steal, but he has his reasons, and he's sure that he'll get away with it... Of course, his denial is his undoing, in the end.
Having been awarded the 2013 Caldecott Medal last month, Klassen's mixed media illustrations of Chinese ink and digital design are not disappointing, especially in the small details, like the bubbles that pop up in the wake of the swi...more
Having been awarded the 2013 Caldecott Medal last month, Klassen's mixed media illustrations of Chinese ink and digital design are not disappointing, especially in the small details, like the bubbles that pop up in the wake of the swi...more
I've heard This Is Not My Hat described as a "spiritual sequel" to I Want My Hat Back, and I think that's an apt phrase for the connection between the first two picture books written and illustrated by Jon Klassen. Like the bear in the previous story, single-minded in his drive to get back his stolen property, a gigantic fish awakens to find the hat he had perched on his head suddenly gone. Unlike the bear in I Want My Hat Back, though, this fish knows exactly what happened to his hat, and whic...more
** 2013 Caldecott Award Book **
What an adorable book! It begins as a little fish, wearing a hat, swims into the dark waters while explaining that he stole the hat from a big fish who, the small fish tells us, is sleeping, won't wake up for a long time, won't know who took it even if he notices that it's gone, and finally, won't know where he's going. Unbeknownst to the little fish, the big fish has woken up and is on the path of the small fish to retrieve his hat. The little fish reaches the pla...more
What an adorable book! It begins as a little fish, wearing a hat, swims into the dark waters while explaining that he stole the hat from a big fish who, the small fish tells us, is sleeping, won't wake up for a long time, won't know who took it even if he notices that it's gone, and finally, won't know where he's going. Unbeknownst to the little fish, the big fish has woken up and is on the path of the small fish to retrieve his hat. The little fish reaches the pla...more
Audience: Children in pre-kindergarten through first grade will enjoy the simple story of this book and are old enough to understand the concept that stealing is wrong, although they will probably miss the correlation between the end of the book and the moral of the story. Older first graders through third graders should be able to 'read' the pictures along with the story and catch-on to the subtle humor the illustrator effectively uses throughout the book...especially at the end!
Appeal: Writte...more
Appeal: Writte...more
I love books where the illustrations are crucial to understanding the story. Think ROSIE'S WALK or LITTLE MOUSE, THE RED RIPE STRAWBERRY, AND THE BIG HUNGRY BEAR. There are many beautifully illustrated books that I love, but when the illustrations are tied into the reader's full comprehension magic can be created. Jon Klassen's Caldecott Winner is just that. This is a story told from the point of view of a very small fish that steals a hat from a very large fish. He explains to the reader his ge...more
Book Description: A little fish who thinks he’s very clever, steals a big fish’s hat.
Story:
This book follows the popular; 'I Want My Hat Back' by Klassen. Both books have gotten a lot of national recognition. At first I didn’t understand why this book was being put in the circles of Best Picture Books for 2012, just as I didn’t understand why its predecessor did the same in 2011. But after reading this book aloud with my child, I liked it more than I did when reading it alone (what do you know,...more
Story:
This book follows the popular; 'I Want My Hat Back' by Klassen. Both books have gotten a lot of national recognition. At first I didn’t understand why this book was being put in the circles of Best Picture Books for 2012, just as I didn’t understand why its predecessor did the same in 2011. But after reading this book aloud with my child, I liked it more than I did when reading it alone (what do you know,...more
Okay, maybe they should take away my MLS, or whatever the hell they're calling it these days. Maybe they should figure that after 25+ years in this business I've apparently not learned what I'm supposed to know to do this job.
Or perhaps they should just conclude that I'm hopelessly outdated, a relic of the days of librarians with cardigans and buns and glasses on a chain.
(And I will admit to wearing cardigans.And the bun--when I can manage one for ballet class. No glasses on a chain though--I we...more
Or perhaps they should just conclude that I'm hopelessly outdated, a relic of the days of librarians with cardigans and buns and glasses on a chain.
(And I will admit to wearing cardigans.And the bun--when I can manage one for ballet class. No glasses on a chain though--I we...more
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Jon Klassen created a hilarious master piece with his first book in the Hat series, "I Want My Hat Back." With his second book in the series, "This is Not My Hat," he has certainly proved his brilliance in children's literature. In "This is Not My Hat," a little fish has stolen a tiny blue hat from another fish. The little fish is convinced that no one will ever know that he stole the hat, so he is not worried that he will get in trouble for stealing, even though he is aware that it is clearly n...more
I never expected to see a sequel to I Want My Hat Back but I am so thrilled that Klassen saw things differently. This second book has a similar theme to it with a stolen hat, but it has entirely different characters. This time the story is set underwater with fish playing the major roles. One little fish has stolen a hat from a big sleeping fish. He knows it was wrong, but justifies it by the fact the hat looks so much better on him and fits better too. As he flees to the thick reeds to hide, he...more
5 starred reviews: PW, Kirkus, SLJ, Hornbook, Booklist
Darkly humorous picture book from Jon Klassen -- the illustrations make this story what it is, done in dark hues in full page/double page spreads, they reveal the truth about what is happening, in direct contrast to what the narrator, little thieving fish, is saying.
"...The perspective never changes, there are no close-up or far-away variations in point of view. The only change in the main characters from page to page is their eyes, subtly e...more
Darkly humorous picture book from Jon Klassen -- the illustrations make this story what it is, done in dark hues in full page/double page spreads, they reveal the truth about what is happening, in direct contrast to what the narrator, little thieving fish, is saying.
"...The perspective never changes, there are no close-up or far-away variations in point of view. The only change in the main characters from page to page is their eyes, subtly e...more
A Publisher's Weekly Best Book for 2012
A Caldecott contender? (Yep!)
The dark depths of the ocean are the perfect setting for "This Is not My Hat" be John Klassen. The sense of foreboding, suspense, and foreshadowing are increased with the black background and neutral palette Klassen uses to illustrate the story. A tiny fish steals a hat, more suited to him than to the gigantic fish that he steals it from. The tiny fish naively thinks that he won't be caught, but the reader knows otherwise. After...more
A Caldecott contender? (Yep!)
The dark depths of the ocean are the perfect setting for "This Is not My Hat" be John Klassen. The sense of foreboding, suspense, and foreshadowing are increased with the black background and neutral palette Klassen uses to illustrate the story. A tiny fish steals a hat, more suited to him than to the gigantic fish that he steals it from. The tiny fish naively thinks that he won't be caught, but the reader knows otherwise. After...more
Feb 02, 2013
Judy
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Children in grades kindergarten through 3
Recommended to Judy by:
Caldecott winner
This book would probably be more appealing if I had read I Want My Hat Back first. Despite its having been chosen as the Caldecott Medal winner for 2013, I didn't find the artwork particularly interesting, not was I quite sure of the theme of the story. The little fish who stole the big fish's hat reassures himself that he won't get caught because the theft won't be noticed, or, if it is noticed, that the big fish won't bother to come after his hat. Should both of those notions prove false, the...more
This picture book works on several levels. First, the confident, naive voice of a little fish who has just stolen a hat is boldly contradicted on every page by the simple, expressive illustrations of a bigger fish who may, it seems, have noticed. We smirk at the 'that's what you think' interplay between words and image, swimming in deepening uncertainty about where the story will end.
Second, the little fish's conscience pours forth both justification and lack of concern for his act in stages tha...more
Second, the little fish's conscience pours forth both justification and lack of concern for his act in stages tha...more
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The pictures in This is Not My Hat are vital to understanding the storyline. As the story reads "And he probably won't wake up for a long time", we see the big fishes eyes wide open. As the story reads, "There is someone who saw me already. But he said he wouldn't tell anyone which way I went. So I am not worried about that", we see the crab point the big fish in the direction of the little fish.
But most important to the storyline, at the end, we see the big fish disappear into the tall plants g...more
But most important to the storyline, at the end, we see the big fish disappear into the tall plants g...more
As a child, one of my very favorite picturebooks was The Story of Ferdinand with its pacifist and humorous storyline. This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen is a darkly humorous tale told by an unreliable narrator, while the illustrations refute the comments in the text. It is definitely NOT the story of Ferdinand the Bull.
Klassen's illustrations, created digitally and with Chinese ink, use a dark palette featuring black, brown, gray, green and blue. Two fish, a hat, a crab, and a thick forest of oce...more
Klassen's illustrations, created digitally and with Chinese ink, use a dark palette featuring black, brown, gray, green and blue. Two fish, a hat, a crab, and a thick forest of oce...more
In This Is Not My Hat, Jon Klassen tries to recapture the magic of his original hit,
I Want My Hat Back
. But the sequel falls short for two reasons. First, the humor of the first book was derived from both the art and the text; they were perfect complements to each other. In this follow-up, the text is rather nondescript, and though the art is as fanciful as ever, it can't carry the whole book. Second, the plot is identical to its predecessor: an animal's hat has been stolen, and he wants it ba...more
Always curious about the Caldecott award winner, I checked this book out from my local library, and I was very surprised when the librarians told me that in spite of the lovely illustrations (they are that) they did not approve of this selection because the story was just wrong. I asked what they meant, and (we all had a moment of silence for my wonderful long lost Border's Bookstore) they explained that they didn't think the story merited an award. They sent me off to read it and decide for mys...more
Audience: The audience for this book would be primary grades. Students from pre-k though third will be able to understand and enjoy this book.
Appeal: This book is appealing to students in the primary grades, because the images are large and spread from one page to the other. The images tell a different story than the text. The entire time the text is persuading the reader that the little fish won’t be caught stealing the big fish’s hat, but the images show the reader the opposite. The humorous...more
Appeal: This book is appealing to students in the primary grades, because the images are large and spread from one page to the other. The images tell a different story than the text. The entire time the text is persuading the reader that the little fish won’t be caught stealing the big fish’s hat, but the images show the reader the opposite. The humorous...more
Nov 25, 2012
Karin
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Shelves:
picture-books,
picture-books-for-adults,
funny,
borrowed-from-the-library,
theft,
revenge,
justice,
fish
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What a way to introduce kids to an unreliable narrator! I love that we don't know what happened at the ending - alright we probably know, but still you can wonder. A worthy "companion" book to I Want My Hat Back.
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This book was interesting I didn't really know what to expect from it based on just the title. The book is about a fish who steals a hat from another fish. The thief acknowledges that stealing is bad but he still shows no remorse for doing so. In the end the owner of the hat finds him and takes his hat back. This book would be a great book for children to write an ending to because we don't know what happened to the thief fish. All we see if the owner of the hat leave the plants with his hat on....more
This 2013 Caldecott award winner quietly combines words and illustration in storytelling, sometimes allowing the illustrations to fill in what the text does not. With relatively simple illustrations, the characters are expressive, though perhaps Klassen allows the text to do most of the talking for the little protagonist who steals the hat.
The text itself is an easy stream-of-conciousness, so the illustrations tell the story of every character other than the protagonist. As a stream-of-conciousn...more
The text itself is an easy stream-of-conciousness, so the illustrations tell the story of every character other than the protagonist. As a stream-of-conciousn...more
A little fish takes a big fishes hat while the big fish is sleeping. He hurries to hide before the big fish wakes up. He justifies his bad decision stating the the hat didn't fit the big fish, the big fish probably won't miss it, etc. This book can provide a good jumping off point for discussions about how kids and adults often create reasons and explanations for their bad behavior - fooling themselves, perhaps, but few others.
This book would be a good beginner reader because many of the words a...more
This book would be a good beginner reader because many of the words a...more
I LOVE this book!! At first, I was a bit concerned that a children's book was written about larceny; however, by the end, I was laughing out loud (literally). The illustrations really are more a part of the story. I read this to my daughter, and my mother was listening in. When I asked her what she thought, she told me it seemed a bit "odd". However, I encouraged her to read it also (this time looking at the pictures), and she too then found it quite funny. The last couple of pages do not have w...more
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Jon Klassen received the 2010 Canadian Governor General’s Award for his illustrations in Caroline Stutson’s CAT'S NIGHT OUT. He also created illustrations for the popular series THE INCORRIGIBLE CHILDREN OF ASHTON PLACE and served as an illustrator on the animated feature film Coraline. I WANT MY HAT BACK is the first book he has both written and illustrated. Originally from Niagara Falls, Canada,...more
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Dec 04, 2012 08:23pm