This is Not My Hat

The 2013 Caldecott Winner is This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen. I found this book to be deceptively simple and wildly entertaining. The illustrations were created digitally and in Chinese ink; this makes me wonder if is should have won the Caldecott award. 

However, I always deeply enjoy children's picture books that tell the story mainly through the pictures that are present. They make read alouds and sharing a book with a child who can not read yet easier. The way this book is constructed lends itself to teaching lessons with predictions to young students who have not completely mastered reading yet. There is also a obvious moral lesson here: taking someone else's stuff is wrong.