The Best of 2011?

My fave of the bunch is I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen. This seemingly simple picture books tells of Bear looking for his hat. He asks all the animals if they have seen his red hat, even rabbit...who is wearing the hat! Rabbit denies it and it takes a couple of pages for Bear to realize he has been bamboozled. Well, watch out Rabbit because we all know how bears solve their problems! A very subtle ending. Bonus for all you Twitter fans or those who have no interest in the Twilight teams. You can choose Team Bear or Team Rabbit and add a little icon to your Twitter account! Me, being a hat lover, obviously chose Team Bear.

"Some might dismiss the idea of creating stories for the enigmatic illustrations in Van Allsburg’s The Mysteries of Harris Burdick as literary heresy. But really, that sort of imaginative extrapolation is the whole point of the earlier book, an exercise formalized in this volume with creepy, funny, and provocative entries from the likes of Sherman Alexie, Kate DiCamillo, Gregory Maguire, and Van Allsburg himself."
I don't know, what do you think? To read the entire list, click HERE
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