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Jon Klassen

Author of I Want My Hat Back

10+ Works 6,796 Members 696 Reviews 6 Favorited

About the Author

Jon Klassen is a writer and illustrator of children's books. He won the 2013 Caldecott Medal for illustration, recognizing This Is Not My Hat, which he also wrote. He is also well known for his 2011 picture book I Want My Hat Back. Jon studied animation at Sheridan College. He moved to Los Angeles show more after graduation and made an animated short with Dan Rodriques, An Eye for Annai. He worked on Neil Gaiman's Coralin and Kung Fu Panda, and was the art director for U2's animated video for I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight." (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by Jon Klassen

I Want My Hat Back (2011) 2,954 copies
This Is Not My Hat (2012) 2,491 copies
We Found a Hat (2016) 780 copies
The Rock from the Sky (2021) 285 copies
The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale (2023) — Narrator, some editions — 250 copies
Jon Klassen's Hat Box (2019) 32 copies
Aus heiterem Himmel (2021) 1 copy

Associated Works

Pax (2016) — Illustrator — 2,424 copies
Extra Yarn (2012) — Illustrator — 1,847 copies
The Mysterious Howling (2009) — Illustrator — 1,701 copies
Sam and Dave Dig a Hole (2014) — Illustrator — 1,164 copies
The Dark (2013) — Illustrator — 1,111 copies
The Hidden Gallery (2011) — Illustrator — 717 copies
The Nest (2015) — Illustrator — 624 copies
Triangle (2017) — Illustrator — 476 copies
The Witch's Boy (2014) — Cover artist — 472 copies
The Unseen Guest (2012) — Illustrator — 471 copies
The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic (2011) — Cover artist — 367 copies
Skunk and Badger (2020) — Illustrator — 351 copies
Flight, Volume Four (2007) — Contributor — 341 copies
Pax, Journey Home (2021) — Illustrator — 331 copies
The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse (2017) — Illustrator — 315 copies
Half-Minute Horrors (2009) — Contributor — 277 copies
Square (2018) — Illustrator — 272 copies
A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader (2018) — Illustrator — 234 copies
House Held Up by Trees (2012) — Illustrator — 230 copies
Circle (2019) — Illustrator — 230 copies
The Three Billy Goats Gruff (2022) — Illustrator — 225 copies
Cat's Night Out (2010) — Illustrator — 127 copies
Vanished (2011) — Cover artist — 96 copies
How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? (2023) — Illustrator — 91 copies

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I love this for the full commitment to weirdness and for the sheer thoroughness of Otilia dismembering the headless skeleton. It's very fairy tale and very satisfying.
 
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jennybeast | 10 other reviews | Feb 21, 2024 |
My review of this book can be found on my YouTube Vlog at:

https://youtu.be/M9IeySwNsFI

Enjoy!
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booklover3258 | 10 other reviews | Feb 9, 2024 |
The original story is in A Book of Ghosts and Goblins written by Ruth Manning-Sanders and illustrated by Robin Jacques (1969) and turns out to be rather different from what Mr. Klassen remembered after reading it before he did a presentation in a library in Alaska. In the Author's Note, he explains that this is the way folktales work.
I started reading this with a couple of 5th graders, who decided that it was maybe too scary/creepy to continue. We read I Want My Hat Back instead---not sure if this isn't ultimately more disturbing.… (more)
 
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raizel | 10 other reviews | Feb 6, 2024 |

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Works
10
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Members
6,796
Popularity
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Rating
4.1
Reviews
696
ISBNs
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Languages
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Favorited
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