Or the excuse that it was so good it left me speechless. I could use the excuse that I don't want to spoil the book for anyone else by talking about it. I could join in with those saying that it's oh-so-wonderful and one of the best books ever. I read it three or four times through and the confusion hasn't left me. But different characters, different hats, as far as I can recall.) This picture book is about what happens when two very good friends want the same hat. (Three picture books with 'hat' in the title. But he has a very, very, very, very, very odd sense of humor. Premise/plot: Jon Klassen is very, very, very, very, very popular.

I like how one turtle wants the hat without sharing.įirst sentence: We found a hat. The turtles are fighting to get the hat back. Check out Klaasen! Read everything he does! Lovely. I think it is just a little refreshingly off center, with some admission of longing and jealousy in it. And maybe it is about these things, or could be. It could be about how we must deal with a world of diminishing resources.

Most kid books have clear 'morals.' This one could be about friendship and sharing. So the ending is either just strange, weird, or it has mystery about it. #2 shares a dream he has about their both having hats.

It would appear that #1 will, when the other one is asleep, finally take it, but. They decide to leave it so no one will NOT have a hat. Yay, yet another hat book from Jon Klaasen, the third in a kind of trilogy! This one is in three parts, which is unusual for a picturebook. And so I will honor my collective sense of this book as not as good as the first two and knock my own personal rating to 4 stars! Because maybe they (and GR friend Martyn) have talked me out of my rave.ĥ Stars. This one is unique in that it is the only one of the 20 I had read well in advance of the award process. My rating might be somewhat influenced by the family, naturally. There's 20 (15 first round and 5 new ones for the semi-final round) and this is the fifteenth being rated. I make a few comments and then add their separate ratings and a comment from each of them. Each year I and my family read and rate all the Goodreads picture book nominees.

I want my hat