I have to thank Hicklebee's for making it so easy for me to stalk authors. Today Jon Klassen was there for his new book This Is Not My Hat, a follow up, nay, a companion piece to his first, best-selling book I Want My Hat Back, which I wrote about here and here. I loved I Want My Hat Back so much that I was inspired to make Bear's hat. Now I am working on a hat for Little Fish so he won't have to steal Big Fish's hat anymore. Sadly, I didn't think about doing this until last night and couldn't finish it in time to give to Jon Klassen.
Here is the book trailer for This Is Not My Hat
You can probably guess that everything will not be fine for this little fish. Whereas in the first book, we shared in Bear's pain and anguish at the loss of his hat, the horror of discovering that it had been stolen by some one with whom he was acquainted, no less, and the needling self-doubt as he ponders his ultimate course of action; in this book, we are privvy to the thief's tale. And he nearly convinces us that what he's done is not such a bad thing, but in the end, the bigger animal always gets his hat back.
Jon Klassen has long ago given up being coy about what happens to hat thieves in his books but I prefer to leave it ambiguous.
Last time I saw Jon Klassen at Hicklebee's, I gave him the pointy hat I had made. This time, I gave one to Miss Valerie, the co-owner of Hicklebee's because I didn't want her to feel left out. Here's a picture of her wearing the hat:
And here she is with Jon Klassen and Mac Barnett who showed up for the heck of it:
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