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The Hat (signed by the author)
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The Hat (signed by the author) Hardback - 1997

by Jan Brett

  • Used
  • Fine
  • Hardcover
  • Signed

This delightful companion to Brett's bestselling "The Mitten" is certain to be met with the same wide acclaim. When Lisa's woolen stocking flies off the clothesline, Hedgie finds it and pokes his nose in it. But when he tries to pull it off, the stocking won't budge. And so the fun begins, as six noisy farm animals laugh at Hedgie, especially when he tries to pretend that he's wearing a new hat. Full color.

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Putnam Juvenile, 1997. Hardback. Fine/fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on a specially designed bookplate, nop personalization or inscription. Oblong color illustrated glossy hardcovers. 30 pp. Charming and beautifully illustrated children's tale located on a Scandinavian farm. When Lisa's stocking flies off the clothsline, Hedgie the porcupine finds it, stick his nose in and it gets stuck on his prickles. Other animal friends come by and laugh at him when he pretends he is wearing a new hat.
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  • Title The Hat (signed by the author)
  • Author Jan Brett
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 32
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Putnam Juvenile, New York
  • Date 1997
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GE19653
  • ISBN 9780399231018 / 0399231013
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.68 x 10.58 x 0.36 in (22.05 x 26.87 x 0.91 cm)
  • Ages 04 to 08 years
  • Grade levels P - 3
  • Reading level 540
  • Themes
    • Holiday: Christmas
    • Seasonal: Winter
    • Theometrics: Secular
  • Library of Congress subjects Clothing and dress, Animals
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96054015
  • Dewey Decimal Code E

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Summary

When Lisa's woolen stocking flies off the clothesline, Hedgie finds it and pokes his nose in. He tries to pull it out, but the stocking gets stuck on his prickles -- and the fun begins.

A mother hen comes by, then a noisy goose, a talkative barn cat, a playful farm dog, a mama pig and her piglets, and a pony. They all laugh at Hedgie, especially when he pretends he's wearing a new hat. But in the end, it is clever Hedgie who has the last laugh.

And where is Lisa when all of this is going on? She's in the borders, getting ready for winter, until she realizes her stocking is missing and she enters the story to look for it.

Jan Brett's luminous paintings of a Scandinavian farm and the forest around it are bathed in northern light, as the snow begins to fall and the story begins, in this delightfully original companion book to The Mitten.

From the publisher

With over thirty four million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation's foremost author illustrators of children's books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.

As a child, Jan Brett decided to be an illustrator and spent many hours reading and drawing. She says, "I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing that the imaginary place I'm drawing really exists. The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real."

As a student at the Boston Museum School, she spent hours in the Museum of Fine Arts. "It was overwhelming to see the room-size landscapes and towering stone sculptures, and then moments later to refocus on delicately embroidered kimonos and ancient porcelain," she says. "I'm delighted and surprised when fragments of these beautiful images come back to me in my painting."

Travel is also a constant inspiration. Together with her husband, Joe Hearne, who is a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Jan visits many different countries where she researches the architecture and costumes that appear in her work. "From cave paintings to Norwegian sleighs, to Japanese gardens, I study the traditions of the many countries I visit and use them as a starting point for my children's books."

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Citations

  • Booklist, 09/01/1997, Page 116
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/1997, Page 23
  • Kirkus Review - Children, 07/01/1997, Page 1027
  • New York Times, 02/15/1998, Page 25
  • Publishers Weekly, 06/02/1997, Page 71
  • School Library Journal, 09/01/1997, Page 173

About the author

With over thirty four million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation's foremost author illustrators of children's books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.

As a child, Jan Brett decided to be an illustrator and spent many hours reading and drawing. She says, "I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing that the imaginary place I'm drawing really exists. The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real."

As a student at the Boston Museum School, she spent hours in the Museum of Fine Arts. "It was overwhelming to see the room-size landscapes and towering stone sculptures, and then moments later to refocus on delicately embroidered kimonos and ancient porcelain," she says. "I'm delighted and surprised when fragments of these beautiful images come back to me in my painting."

Travel is also a constant inspiration. Together with her husband, Joe Hearne, who is a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Jan visits many different countries where she researches the architecture and costumes that appear in her work. "From cave paintings to Norwegian sleighs, to Japanese gardens, I study the traditions of the many countries I visit and use them as a starting point for my children's books."

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