Check It Out - I Want My Hat Back

I WANT MY HAT BACK (written and illustrated by Jon Klassen)

Children lie sometimes.  (Adults don't, of course.)  Bears and rabbits apparently do, though.  It’s all here is this deceptively simple and wickedly funny picture book.

Bear can’t find his hat.  His asks a series of animals if they have seen it.  They say they haven’t.  Bear thanks them politely.  Rabbit, however, is actually wearing Bear’s missing hat as he denies ever seeing it.  Somehow Bear doesn’t notice.   When he realizes his mistake, he returns, gets back his hat, takes revenge, and tells his own lie.

I’m not lying when I caution parents that this is not a book for teaching values.  It’s a book for recognizing and laughing at the crazy ways we humans act.

For a little bedtime irony, pick this up at the and read it aloud to everyone in the family from tots to teens.