When I come across a book like Very Good Hats, it makes me long for the days I had elementary students I could read to every day, or my own daughters who I could curl up with before bedtime and read with. This book is such a delight.
Most kids - and probably most adults- can relate to placing something on their heads that is decidedly not a hat, but pretending that it is indeed a hat. That's what happens in Very Good Hats. A bowl could be a hat. Or a bike helmet. Or a pile of leaves. A stack of books (as a librarian I frown on this one). A cat.
There is no shortage of suggestions and examples about what could be used as a hat. And by the end of the story, I felt a little like I should look around and see what I could turn into a hat myself.
A true pleasure to read aloud.
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I'm eager to read Very Good Hats.
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