![]() ![]() Painted with Chinese ink and digital art, Klassen’s book falls into that growing category of subversive picture books out there. And when the bear realizes the true culprit there will be a price to pay. The rabbit, for the record, refuses to acknowledge having seen the hat in spite of the fact that he appears to be wearing it. ![]() To find it he questions a variety of woodland creatures including a fox, a frog, a turtle, a possum, a dear, a snake and a rabbit. I mean, I thought the man was grand, but could he tell a story? Well, turns out I was right about the fact that his art is magnificent and now, with the release of his first author/illustrator picture book I Want My Hat Back, Klassen shows once and for all that his storytelling talents match his illustration technique pound for pound.Ī bear has lost his hat. I was fairly certain he might at some point, and I wasn’t sure I’d be looking forward to it. Still and all, until now he hadn’t illustrated his own book. I hardly even noticed that he was the same guy behind the pictures found in The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place by Maryrose Wood. And frankly I just thought it contained some of the slickest art I’d seen in a picture book in a long while. I knew it! I knew it, I knew it, I knew it, I knew it, I knew it! When Caroline Stutson’s Cats’ Night Out was released by Simon & Schuster in 2010 it contained art by an animator going by the moniker of Jon Klassen. ![]()
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