I Want My Hat Back Hardcover - 2011

Media reviews

You know, bears may stand for adults in some way, because they're big, they're ungainly, they're goofy. They're like most of us grownups. But the bear in this book paws down; he's got to be the dimmest, most slow-witted, brilliantly stupid bear to come along in years. I really love him.
—NPR Weekend Edition

A marvelous book in the true dictionary sense of "marvel": it is a wonderful and astonishing thing, the kind of book that makes child laugh and adult chuckle, and both smile in appreciation. A charmingly wicked little book.
—The New York Times

Four pages into this charmer, every kindergartner will know where the bear's missing hat is - but they'll never predict the hilarious revenge he takes on the thief.
—People Magazine

Deliberately understated, with delectable results... Skillful characterizations; though they're simply drawn and have little to say, each animal emerges fully realized.
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Citations

• Booklist, 11/01/2011, Page 77
• BookPage, 11/01/2011, Page 0
• Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 11/01/2011, Page 0
• Horn Book Magazine, 11/01/2011, Page 83
• Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2012, Page 33
• Kirkus Reviews, 08/01/2011, Page 0
• New York Times Book Review, 11/13/2011, Page 29
• NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 12/04/2011, Page 33
• People, 12/19/2011, Page 51
• Publishers Weekly, 07/04/2011, Page 0
• Publishers Weekly Best Books, 11/07/2011, Page 38
• School Library Journal, 08/01/2011, Page 78
• Shelf Awareness, 09/30/2011, Page 0