Hats! Hats! Hats!
Today is National Hat Day...which I discovered the same way I discover most fun holidays, through Anita Silvey's Book-A-Day Almanac. (It just so happens she and I share a love of hats and children's books.) She suggests the famous Caps for Sale for today's celebration. Here are my picks!
What kind of hat holiday would it be without Jon Klassen's tremendous hat-book team, I Want My Hat Back and This is Not My Hat?? As one of my students tweeted on our class Twitter board, "I Want My Hat Back and This is Not My Hat both have hats and someone gets eaten." Yep. I mean, what other solution is there for a guy who steals your hat? Check out these sweet AND hilarious hat books today.
Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina is an obvious winner too, as Silvey points out. A man selling hats is tricked by a monkey who wants them. What's up with everyone wanting to steal hats? I am honored to say that as a child growing up in the days of Reading Rainbow, I first heard about Caps for Sale when it was featured on that show. *Tear (Silvey also suggests When Everybody Wore a Hat by William Steig, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr. Seuss, and Milo's Hat Trick by Jon Agee)
The stacked-high pile of hats in Caps for Sale reminds me of a Shel Silverstein poem about just such a thing. In "Mr. Smeds and Mr. Spats," Mr. Spats has 21 hats, and Mr. Smeds has 21 heads. Will they compromise? See for yourself! Check out A Light in the Attic to read this poem and many others.
The Hatter. Some call him mad but Lewis Carroll simply referred to him as The Hatter. It was the Cheshire Cat who informed young Alice that both the March Hare and the Hatter were mad. Do you know how the phrase "mad as a hatter" started? It is because back in the not-so-good ol' days, hatters used mercury when making hats. This caused some damage to their nervous systems and could make them, well, a little crazy. Another fun fact, mercury poisoning is still known as "Mad Hatter's disease." Hmm.
If you need a hat, check out my not-so-mad but oh-so-fab hatters at Salmagundi in Jamaica Plain. Whether it is a stack of hats for your friend with 21 heads, some flat caps for monkeys, or just something to don today, they are sure to have it! Happy National Hat Day! (Just don't let somebody steal your hats!)
What kind of hat holiday would it be without Jon Klassen's tremendous hat-book team, I Want My Hat Back and This is Not My Hat?? As one of my students tweeted on our class Twitter board, "I Want My Hat Back and This is Not My Hat both have hats and someone gets eaten." Yep. I mean, what other solution is there for a guy who steals your hat? Check out these sweet AND hilarious hat books today.
Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina is an obvious winner too, as Silvey points out. A man selling hats is tricked by a monkey who wants them. What's up with everyone wanting to steal hats? I am honored to say that as a child growing up in the days of Reading Rainbow, I first heard about Caps for Sale when it was featured on that show. *Tear (Silvey also suggests When Everybody Wore a Hat by William Steig, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr. Seuss, and Milo's Hat Trick by Jon Agee)
The stacked-high pile of hats in Caps for Sale reminds me of a Shel Silverstein poem about just such a thing. In "Mr. Smeds and Mr. Spats," Mr. Spats has 21 hats, and Mr. Smeds has 21 heads. Will they compromise? See for yourself! Check out A Light in the Attic to read this poem and many others.
The Hatter. Some call him mad but Lewis Carroll simply referred to him as The Hatter. It was the Cheshire Cat who informed young Alice that both the March Hare and the Hatter were mad. Do you know how the phrase "mad as a hatter" started? It is because back in the not-so-good ol' days, hatters used mercury when making hats. This caused some damage to their nervous systems and could make them, well, a little crazy. Another fun fact, mercury poisoning is still known as "Mad Hatter's disease." Hmm.
If you need a hat, check out my not-so-mad but oh-so-fab hatters at Salmagundi in Jamaica Plain. Whether it is a stack of hats for your friend with 21 heads, some flat caps for monkeys, or just something to don today, they are sure to have it! Happy National Hat Day! (Just don't let somebody steal your hats!)
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