Klassen's follow-up to I Want My Hat Back is a perfect marriage of text and illustration, with a deliciously dark ending.
Winner of the Caldecott Medal, this darkly comic underwater caper follows a tiny fish who swipes a hat and insists he’ll get away with it. Jon Klassen’s masterful suspense and sly humor make this deceptively simple tale irresistible—you’ll want to read it three times.
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When a tiny fish swipes a hat from a big, sleeping fish, he’s certain he’ll get away with it. After all, the big fish is asleep. And even if he wakes up, the ocean is vast. And the little fish is very, very small. What could possibly go wrong?
Winner of the Caldecott Medal and the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor, this darkly comic picture book from Jon Klassen is a masterclass in suspense and visual storytelling. With minimal text and maximum tension, Klassen creates an underwater chase that will have readers holding their breath from the first page to the last.
The deceptively simple illustrations—rendered in muted blues and greens—hide delightful details that reveal more with each reading. Young readers will love playing detective, following the clues Klassen plants throughout the pages. Meanwhile, the unreliable narrator (our hat-stealing protagonist) keeps insisting everything will be fine. Spoiler: it might not be.
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This hardcover edition is a treasure for your shelf—a book that works beautifully for early readers while offering layers of wit that adults will appreciate. Fair warning: you’ll want to read it twice. Maybe three times. The ending is that good.
Klassen's follow-up to I Want My Hat Back is a perfect marriage of text and illustration, with a deliciously dark ending.
The pacing is exquisite, the humor is to die for, and the illustrations are endlessly intriguing.
Klassen's characteristically deadpan text and illustrations in shades of blue, green, and black create a dramatic undersea landscape and an ominous mood to match the story's dark humor.
This book is a perfect combination of sly humor and suspenseful storytelling.
A darkly funny, perfectly paced tale of crime and consequences.
With his distinctive visual style and deadpan humor, Klassen has created another winner.
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