I Want My Hat Back

Klassen, J. (2011). I Want My Hat Back. Sommerville, MA: Candlewick Press.

You know a book is good when a sequel is written. I Want My Hat Back is just such a book. A bear is looking for his missing hat and goes through the book asking various animals. Then it dawns on him that one of the animals he had asked, the rabbit, had his hat on his head. The bear solves his problem off page to a hilarious conclusion. 

This book is a great read aloud for primary grades. I know first hand. My mother was a "guest reader" for our district's celebration of Week of the Young Child.  She would go in to kindergarten classrooms and read a book. When she read this one, the kids loved it. They found it humorous that the bear ate the rabbit. Klassen's intended cliffhanger pleases his young audience.

The text is written in different colors according to who is talking. I think this must be intentional since there is no quotation marks. It reads kinda of like a play or reader's theater. Students could take turns reading if they chose to partner read.