![]() ![]() The following year, Klassen made history as the first author ever to win both the Caldecott Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal in the same year for the same work. Literary periodicals like Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly, both of which dole out high praise to children’s lit on none but the rarest occasions, honored This Is Not My Hat with unanimously and unequivocally positive reviews. While both books tell the story of a small animal who steals a hat from a larger one, Klassen flips the perspective from that of the victim in I Want My Hat Back to that of the perpetrator in This Is Not My Hat. ![]() The book is a follow-up-or, better yet, a “spiritual sequel” of sorts-to a children’s book published just a year earlier by Klassen titled I Want My Hat Back. This Is Not My Hat is a very popular and critically-acclaimed children’s picture book published in 2012 by Canadian author and illustrator, Jon Klassen. ![]()
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