I haven't seen your hat." The bear politely ends each conversations with, "OK. The bear asks each creature he meets, "Have you seen my hat?" With the response being, "No. After bear laments about the loss of his hat, he sets off to find it. The patterning of the book is established early on. Our main speaker, the bear, speaks in black, and the rest of the characters he interrogates speak in red. Bonus points for reading it aloud to kids too, as their reactions will make this book even more memorable.Īnalysis: Dialogue I Want My Hat Back is told entirely in dialogue, and author/illustrator Jon Klassen uses color rather than quotation marks and dialogue tags to differentiate the speakers. If you have not yet read I Want My Hat Back (or, its incredible follow-up, the Caldecott Award-Winning This is Not My Hat), then you are in for a treat. I am participating in Picture Books 14:14, a challenge created by Christie of Write Wild that encourages bloggers to review 14 picture books in 14 days, starting on Feb. Awards: A Geisel Honor Book and a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book
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