There are dozens of children's books area a hat (or hats) plays a axial role in the story. Here's a fractional account -- all of which are in The Village Hat Shop's books on hats collection: [Note: For a abbreviate abridgment of anniversary book beneath as able-bodied as the name of the appropriately important (at least) illustrator, bang this article's appellation above.]
JENNIE'S HAT by Ezra Jack Keats
Coach Hats
WHEN EVERYBODY WORE A HAT by William Steig
THE HAT by Tomi Ungerer
THE CASE OF THE MISSING HAT Starring Jim Henson's Muppets by Gregory Williams
BLUE HAT, GREEN HAT by Sandra Boynton
THE 500 HATS OF BARTHOLOMEW CUBBINS by Dr. Seuss
MADELINE AND THE BAD HAT by Ludwig Bemelmans
THE CHRISTMAS HAT by A.J. Wood
HATS OFF TO JOHN STETSON by Mary Blount Christian
ABE LINCOLN'S HAT by Martha Brenner
KATHY'S HATS by Trudy Krisher
TWELVE HATS FOR LENA by Karen Katz
THE QUANGLE WANGLE'S HAT by Edward Lear
LITTLE RED COWBOY HAT by Susan Lowell
THE SCARECROW'S HAT by Ken Brown
MILO'S HAT TRICK by Jon Agee
MISS HUNNICUTT'S HAT by Jeff Brumbeau
WHO WAS THE WOMAN WHO WORE THE HAT? by Nancy Patz
THE CAT IN THE HAT by Dr. Seuss
THE CAT IN THE HAT COMES BACK by Dr. Seuss
RICHARD SCARRY'S MR. FRUMBLE'S BIGGEST HAT FLAP BOOK EVER by Richard Scarry
ZOE'S HATS: A BOOK OF COLORS AND PATTERNS by Sharon Lane Holm
WHO TOOK THE FARMER'S HAT? By Joan L. Nodset
WHO'S UNDER THE HAT by Sarah Weeks
THE MAGIC HAT by Mem Fox
MISS FANNIE'S HAT by Jan Karon
CASEY'S NEW HAT by Tricia Gardella
EL SOMBRERO DEL TIO NACHO/UNCLE NACHO'S HAT by Harriet Rohmer
THE HAT by Jan Brett
MR GEORGE AND THE RED HAT by Stephen Heigh
MY LUCKY HAT by Kevin O'Malley
AUNT FLOSSIE'S HAT (AND CRAB CAKES LATER) by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
Why are there so abounding children's books about hats? Those of you who are approved readers of the HAT BLOG or the "Hat Information and Resources" area of VillageHatShop.com may accept an clue area I am about to go. Yes, this is in actuality addition archetype of a affair that runs throughout the blog and the site, i.e. hats matter. Hats are cultural icons. Hats sit acutely and decidedly on the top of one's head. Hats are a arch to history. Hats transform the wearer. Hats, as a symbol, can be simple and circuitous at the aforementioned time. Hats are fun. As an commodity to circumduct a adventure around, a hat is a absolute fit. Let's booty a scattering of examples:
Hats as a arch to acquirements about history and as a book chiffonier for important belletrist and papers: ABE LINCOLN'S HAT.
Hats as arch accoutrement for chemotherapy patients and as an commodity allowance to sustain hope: KATHY'S HATS.
Hat ("Bad Hat" specifically) as allegory for a person: MADELINE AND THE BAD HAT.
Hat as superhero: THE HAT (Ungerer).
Hat as a admired account for barter: THE SCARECROWS HAT.
Hat as an aberrant and awful alone appearance statement: MISS HUNNICUTT'S HAT.
Hat as a acceptable luck charm: MY LUCKY HAT.
Hat as an commodity dispatch anamnesis and adventure telling: MISS FANNIE'S HAT and AUNT FLOSSIE'S HATS (AND CRAB CAKES LATER).
Hat as an old acquaintance and accompaniment and as a allegory for change: UNCLE NACHO'S HAT/EL SOMBRERO DEL TIO NACHO.
Granted, I am accusable of an a priori bent to animate headwear with a aerial amount of allegorical significance, cache, cultural value, and the like (I've got to absolve my actuality somehow for god's sake), and yet who can altercate with its validity? Clearly, writers and artists from Seuss to Keats to Bemelmans to Scarry et al. who don't allotment my egoistic prejudice, still acquisition this appliance in hats.
But, I believe, the admeasurement of the hat in children's abstract is added than all this. Parenting in avant-garde America can feel like an out of ascendancy merry-go-round. The drumbeat of media letters to buy the appropriate toys, animate your home with the appropriate music [Mozart] so as to advance academician development, accomplish to the appropriate "play group", accept the adolescent in the appropriate pre-school (that promises to adapt your kid for the Ivy League), treading through the all-over disingenuity (politicians and advertisers spinning, lying, and double-speaking) and chief back and what to betrayal your innocent to the avant-garde world, aggressive affairs (don't buy annihilation except a hat), war - is it any admiration why a ancestor is admiring to a simple adventure that revolves about a simple honest commodity that connotes a simpler time. Hat as cornball figure - yes, that too. But alas, added than homesickness - for arrant out loud, the ancestor understandably wants to booty her kid off that crazy avant-garde merry-go-round. The ancestor has an epiphany -- don't abundance all this developed nonsense and all-overs aloft my kid -- I'll buy a little book and apprehend about a hat. This is a acceptable affair to do in our hyper-complex 21st Century -- it's in actuality acceptable for the soul.
Fred Belinsky
http://VillageHatShop.com
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