This+is+not+my+hat

 Book Review By: Lucrecia Zavala Magee 

= · Title: "This Is Not My Hat" = = · Author and Illustrator: Jon Klassen = = · Publisher: Candlewick, First Edition (October 9, 2012) = = · Hardcover = = · ISBN-13: 978-0763655990 = = · Page number: 40 pages = = · Reading Level: 4-8 years = = · Literary Awards: Winner of the 2013 Caldecott Medal =  **Author Biography **
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Jon Klassen is a Canadian writer and Illustrator of children's books. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1981 and grew up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. He studied animation, graduated in 2005, and moved to Los Angeles where he made an animated short, worked in "Coraline", and "Kung Fu Panda". He was also the director for U2's animated video "I'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight". <span style="color: #382110; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> He won the Caldecott Medal for the illustrations in // This Is Not My Hat //, and is also well-known for his 2011 book // I Want My Hat Back //. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In 2010, Klassen illustrated Maryrose Wood's //The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling//, and achieved international recognition when he was awarded the "Governor General's Award for English Language Children's Illustration for illustrating Carolyn Stutson's //Cat's Night Out//. <span style="color: #382110; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">

<span style="color: #382110; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> **<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">Summary ** <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The narrator in this book is the thief. He is a small, self-confident fish who has stolen a little blue hat from a big sleeping fish. He confesses his crime as he quickly swims across the page trying to get to his hiding place where the plants grow tall and nobody could ever find him. He continues his narrative justifying his act by saying the hat was "too small for (the big fish) anyway." Even though readers know this, he is unaware that the big fish is in quiet pursuit. When the two disappear into a spread filled with seaweed, the narration goes silent, and youngsters can easily surmise what happens as the big fish reemerges with the tiny blue bowler atop his head. <span style="color: #382110; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">

<span style="color: #382110; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> **<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">Book Review **<span style="color: #382110; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">

I really enjoyed reading this book! This is a morality tale told with humor. I loved the facial expressions, the big fish and the crab are hilarious. It's a pretty innocent book that carries out a nice message to children; just because you think you can get away with doing something wrong, it does not make it right; moreover, sooner or later the truth catches up with you! <span style="color: #382110; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> This is a book that can be read to any child and that element of the book can "trap" the students in the story, and they can make predictions on how the book will end! <span style="color: #382110; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> **<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">Literary Element Analysis **<span style="color: #382110; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">

__<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Illustrations __<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">: This story takes place underwater, in the deep sea. Simplicity is key in this book's illustrations, allowing the reader fully appreciate the characters' expressions. The reader can see the little fish swimming away thinking the big fish is still asleep, and the fig fish at the same time opening his big eye up, looking up, and getting really unhappy. The black underwater provides the perfect background for the mostly gray-toned fish and seaweed. I also liked how the movement is indicated with a trail of small white bubbles, the reader can see a trail of little bubbles when the little fish swims by, and big bubbles following the big fish. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The drawings in this book are both, funny and lovely <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">