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Oppenheim Toy Portfolio's Gold Seal Award Winner for Best Book!
Whoosh! The wind blows a hat up in the air. Does the hat belong to the cat? Or to the rooster? Maybe it belongs to the snake or the cow? Or the peacock, the horse or the polar bear? All the animals look good wearing the hat. But whose hat is it really?
A playful, funny story about the wind, a hat and a group of animals. For children ages 3 and up.
Author Notes
I'm Anita Bijsterbosch . I was born in 1961 in The Netherlands. My entire life, I have loved reading. As a child, I could spend hours thumbing through books, looking at the pictures and hoping I could one day make such beautiful illustrations myself. I studied the images down to the smallest detail and made up my own little stories to go along with them.
After high school, I took drawing and painting lessons in small galleries in my neighborhood. And I learned a lot from drawing and painting books. But I also mastered many techniques simply by experimenting with them on my own.
When my children were still young, I read them a bedtime story every night. I rediscovered that some picture books are real pieces of art. That's when I got the ambition to make my very own picture books.
I was remarked by the jury of the Key Colours International Illustrators Award 2012 . The book Whose Hat is That? was published by Clavis Publishing and every book I have made since has been even more successful.
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School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 1-A well-illustrated, well-told repetitive-pattern book is worth its weight in gold in a classroom of beginning readers, and this one fills the bill perfectly. It starts with the wind taking a hat and playfully flinging it into the air. When it comes down, it lands on a cat's head, and he is quite taken with the new look. "'It looks good on me,'" he says. Whoosh! The wind takes the hat again, and it lands on a rooster's head. He is also pleased with it and echoes what the cat said. The hat goes on its journey touching down on a cow, a snake, a polar bear, a horse, a peacock, and a dog, until the little girl who lost it has it back again. Each of the animals says the same thing, with the exception of a woof, a neigh, a moo, and so on. The repetition offers great support for fledgling readers, and the illustrations answer any remaining questions they might have. This book is right up there with the royalty of pattern books such as Bill Martin Jr.'s Brown Bear, Brown Bear (Holt, 1996) and Janet and Allan Ahlberg's Each Peach Pear Plum (Puffin, 1986). Delightful and useful.-Joan Kindig, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.