While the bear is distressed and really wants his hat back, he’s also unfailingly polite throughout. “Have you seen my hat?” and “Thank you anyway.” are the phrases most often repeated. The whole story takes place in simple dialogue. It’s not a particularly complicated tale. I have probably written more words about this book than the entire forty pages contain. We have (as most parents probably do with children’s books) by now lost count of the number of times we’ve read this book, but neither of us ever gets sick of it. She claimed that she would probably read and recommend these books, even if she didn’t have little girls to read them to. This came warmly recommended to us by an old friend from university, who works as a librarian and has children of her own. While I was pregnant, I asked friends for recommendations of good children’s books to get for our boy. Of all the books my husband and I read to our son, this is our favourite. A helpful deer asks him to describe the hat, and which triggers the bear’s memory: He has seen his hat! You will be relieved to hear that the story ends happily, with the bear and his hat reunited. They all try to help, but none of them have the answer he is looking for. He goes and politely enquires of all the animals he meets whether they’ve seen his hat. This is Not My Hat won the Caldecott Medal and the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Children’s Picture Book in 2013, and the Premi Llibreter de narritiva for Album illustrat and the Kate Greenaway medal in 2014.Ī bear is sad. I Want My Hat Back has won award in at least three countries, including the Selezionato Mostra Internazionale d’Illustratazione per infanzia di Sarmede in 2011, E.B White Award Read Aloud Award for Picture Books in 2012, Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for Bilderbuch in 2013.

I want my hat back ending