Jon Klassen. Candlewick, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5599-0
Like Klassen's very funny and much-praised I Want My Hat Back, this story involves a hat theft; this time, Klassen ups the ante by having the thief narrate. It's a small gray fish who has stolen a tiny bowler hat from a much larger fish ("It was too
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Jon Klassen. Candlewick, $17.99 (56p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5600-3
Klassen's I Want My Hat Back and This Is Not My Hat stand alone, but they also form a setup for this tale, in which two turtles stumble upon a big white hat in the desert ("We found a hat. We found it together") and try it on in turn ("It looks good
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Jon Klassen. Candlewick, $18.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-5362-1562-5
The most gratifying feature of this new offering by Caldecott Medalist Klassen is that there’s so much of it—96 pages of dark, Beckett-caliber comedy. In the first episode of five, “The Rock,” a tortoise in a bowler hat stands under a broad dusky...
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Jon Klassen. Candlewick, $19.99 (112p) ISBN 978-1-5362-2336-1
This eerie reworking of a Tyrolean folktale by Caldecott Medalist Klassen opens as pale-skinned young Otilla, lost in a snowy forest after running away, stumbles upon a mansion inhabited by a talking skull. Somber, digitally finished graphite and...
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Jon Klassen. Candlewick, $8.99 (24p) ISBN 978-1-5362-3083-3
In this playful board book, publishing alongside two others in the Your Places series, Caldecott Medalist Klassen positions familiar elements of a forest landscape against a blank white backdrop, offering each piece to the reader like a gift. The...
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