Review: I Want My Hat Back

I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I saw We Found A Hat coming up as one of the best children's books of 2016, so naturally, we went to the library and checked out all Jon Klassen's books they had. Maybe we shouldn't. I'm not quite sure why those book, including I Want My Hat Back, got all those awards for best illustrations. What they reminded me of more than anything were the books and cartoons of my Soviet Union childhood, where brown was the only color. These illustrations are just like that, the author either ran out of all other colors or is in a deep depression, so the pictures resemble brown smudges of different hues. The text is questionable, but my son liked it, and it's the only reason this book gets three stars from me.

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