A review by nyawind
This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen

4.0

This tale tells a story of a fish who stole a hat from a bigger sleeping fish. He passed a crab and thought the crab wouldn’t tell where he was going but the pictures depict that the crab told the big fish. The crab ends by saying that he made it to the plants that are “big and tall and close together”. The book ends with pictures of the plants and the big fish passing the crab again with his hat. We don’t see the little fish, just another picture of plants. The images all have a black background and that everything else is ink pressed onto the black. This proves as a prime example of how images can support text within a picture book. The text is the experience that the main fish is having while the images tell a different side, one that is quite the opposite of what the little fish is expecting. The use of images is a bit cheeky and brings on a few chuckles from the misfortune of a fish's questionable choices.