Patiently and politely, he asks the animals he comes across, one by one, whether they have seen it.
The bear’s hat is gone, and he wants it back. STORY STRUCTURE OF I WANT MY HAT BACK PARATEXTĪ picture-book delight by a rising talent tells a cumulative tale with a mischievous twist. I Want My Hat Back is also interesting for the variety of reader responses who think that picture books must star morally upright characters that children are vessels waiting to be filled with good examples, incapable of questioning moral grey areas. Pandering to, or presuming shorter attention spans? Or is it because we are currently experiencing a trend of short, meta, funny picture books that don’t unfold a story with characters so much as riff on a clever idea? That’s a teeny piece of it, surely. Or do we?) Is it because parents are working harder than ever and are too tired to face long reading sessions at bedtime with their kids? Possibly. Why are we so bent on brief? Is it because children have shorter attention spans? ( They do. When I read an opinion piece last week on the decreasing length of picturebooks from Elizabeth Bluemle at Publishers Weekly, the books of Jon Klassen immediately sprang to mind, especially at this paragraph: Although these results are for the book in general, there is a large increase in search between October and November 2011.Past Tense Game Holly Storck-Post at SLJ recommends these Jon Klassen books for use with older students in the classroom. Search for "I Want My Hat Back" began in September when the book was published. It was also reviewed on Wired's GeekDad and has a TV Tropes page.ĭerivatives of the original were shared via the Tumblr tag "I Want My Hat Back." The Doctor Who and TF2 versions appeared on The Daily What, Geek, Reddit and Geekosystem.
The original book was reviewed by the New York Times on October 12th, 2011 and a month later, was listed as one of the 10 Best Illustrated Books of 2011. The next day, afuturegentleman posted a version in which Professor Layton from the Nintendo DS game series of the same name is looking for his top hat. It was Team Fortress 2 themed, illustrating the story of a Heavy looking for his party hat. The first parody of the book was posted as a part of a reblog of original post by modestmango on November 13th, 2011. The post has since been deleted but the images were archived on Buzzfeed and FunnyJunk. Tumblr user thesulfurandthesigh initially posted a series of images of the book's pages some time in early November, which accumulated over 37,000 notes in a few weeks. The original book was written and illustrated by Jon Klassen and published on September 27th, 2011.
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