We Found a Hat (The Hat Trilogy)

This is an everyone book, not just for children. Wonderful!No one in government should have their job without comprehensive understanding of how these ideas are best governing principles.

We love the author's "I Want My Hat Back" which is hilarious especially as the adult reading it to a child. This story has a meaningful message and sweet conclusion that makes this book more heartfelt than "Hat Back."

great little story and illustrations.. I liven Texas it does have a southwest feel.

I really thought my Boys would love this one since “I want my hat back” was a favorite of theirs but it was a bit confusing for my 4 and 8 year old. When the turtle goes back for the hat I got a little chuckle from my 8 year old but in the end it turns out both turtles were just dreaming, and it’s just a bit confusing the first few read throughs. The moral to the story isn’t clear either but I enjoyed the book even if my kiddos did not. It did keep their attention though, not too long of a read, fairly short actually.

Would you like your child to have better design super sense than Kimye? Would you like to start them off with supreme color coordination principles? This story has it all, friendship, deceit, comedy, and drama. Great book for so many reasons.

If you're reading this you've probably read all the rave reviews already. I'll just agree with them all. This particular one may be better for the more younger ones due to its more heartwarming message. I do suggest looking at the "Hat trilogy" 3 pack as it comes with the three books in the loose series and a nice poster in a wonderful gift box.

First off, I adore Jon Klassen's work, esp. I Want My Hat Back (which, if somehow you don't have it, go buy it, right now). We Found a Hat is so very gentle and so very sweet and so really unlike I Want My Hat Back and This is Not My Hat, both of which have a kind of edge to them. Two tortoises, obviously very old and close friends, find a hat -- only one hat. They leave it, as it would only cause friction between them, but it's amazing how Klassen manages to infuse covetousness in one of two identical tortoises just by manipulating its eyes. There is no violence (not even implied off-screen) and in the end no betrayal, only an affirmation of the bond of friendship. The story and the book are both very beautiful and if this completes Klassen's "Hat Trilogy," it ends just right.

I bought this book for my 2 year old granddaughter. This author actually has written 3 of these books and I bought this one and the third one to complete the trilogy after her Mommy had bought her the first one. She has really enjoyed reading and re-reading this book and the other 2 as well.

“If you perceive the universe as being a universe of abundance, then it will be. If you think of the universe as one of scarcity, then it will be,” legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser observed in his conversation with Debbie Millman. One might say that it is difficult, perhaps even delusional, to elect perception over the hard facts of physical reality — after all, if there is only one apple in front of you, how could you perceive your way to having two? And yet the great physicist David Bohm, a scientist grounded in the fundamental building blocks of physical reality, articulated a parallel truth in contemplating how our perceptions shape our reality: "Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe."Beloved children’s book author and illustrator Jon Klassen explores this disorienting paradox with great subtlety, simplicity, and sensitivity in We Found a Hat (public library) — the conclusion of his celebrated hat trilogy, following I Want My Hat Back (2011) and This Is Not My Hat.The story follows two turtles who discover a hat together — a very winsome hat, they both feel — and are suddenly faced by a practical predicament: There is one hat to be had, and two of them who want to have it.Carrying Klassen’s minimalist, maximally expressive illustrations — entire worlds of emotion and intent are intimated by the turn of the turtles’ black-and-white eyes — are his equally spartan words, which envelop his protagonists’ interior worlds in sweetness and gentleness as he tells this touching story of covetousness transformed into generosity and justice.When two turtles are out on a walk they find hat, debate and close with..."It looks good on both of us. But it would not be right if one of us had a hat and the other did not."As the sun begins to set and the predicament remains unresolved, the turtles decide to leave the hat where it is and forget they found it. But as they retire to sleep, the hat occupies their restless imagination. Like Dostoyevsky, who discovered the meaning of life in a dream, the turtles arrive at their solution via the nocturnal imagination.

This book is amazing. The story is very very simple but the detail is in the pictures. If you read the text without showing and discussing the pictures it would make for a very boring story but the pictures are hilarious. They accompany the text to tell the story and they are a brilliant talking point when reading with your child. This book will develop your child's inference skills through discussing what is implied in the pictures.

I fell in love with this book as soon as I read it. The story is simple enough for children to understand but still fun enough for adults, plus the illustrations are minimal but still gorgeous. I bought it for my four year old niece who doesn't like to to share with her younger brother as I hoped it might help to nudge her in the right direction. It is obviously meant for kids but the illustrations/colours are so modern and almost Scandinavian looking that it wouldn't look out of place on a hipster's coffee table. I have also read 'I Want My Hat Back' by Klassen which is also very good and much funnier, but 'We Found A Hat' is probably still my favourite of the two if I had to pick.

Lovely bookBrilliant author and illustratorFab storyWell done Amazon

This book is absolutely brilliant, as are all Jon Klassen’s stories. I’m a teacher and it really helps children to link pictures to words in a far deeper way that very few picture books do, and gives them a first ‘insight’ into sarcasm in writing. Also, is a great story with a lovely, sweet ending and great illustrations!