It also won second prize for Best Animated Short Film in the Children's Jury of the Chicago International Children's Film Festival. It was a nominee for the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Jon Klassen provided the voice of the deer.

The film was adapted, directed, and animated by Galen Fott. Adaptations Īn animated version of I Want My Hat Back was produced by Weston Woods Studios and Bigfott Studios in 2013. It made the Kate Greenaway Medal shortlist, and was a Geisel Award honor book. A bookseller, who 'need to go on record as saying I LOVE this book', reported that some customers love it until they turn the last pages. a charmingly wicked little book and the debut of a promising writer-illustrator talent.' According to the Chicago Tribune, 'the joy of this book lies in figuring out the explicit plot from the implicit details in the pictures.' There has been some discussion of the ending over the appropriateness of a character killing another without repercussion in a children's book. Pamela Paul praised the book in review for The New York Times: 'it is a wonderful and astonishing thing, the kind of book that makes child laugh and adult chuckle, and both smile in appreciation. The book achieved considerable commercial success, spending 48 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. The squirrel exits, leaving the hatted bear sitting alone. The bear answers negatively and defensively, implying he ate the rabbit and ending with 'Don’t ask me any more questions'. A squirrel enters and asks the bear if he has seen a rabbit wearing a hat. After a page turn, we see the bear sitting on a rustled patch of ground, wearing the red pointy hat. He accuses the rabbit of stealing his hat.

Upon recollecting that his hat was red and pointy, the bear snaps to a realisation and runs back to the rabbit. A deer comes upon the despondent bear and asks him what his hat looked like. The rabbit answers negatively and defensively, ending 'Don’t ask me any more questions.' The bear then moves on to ask a turtle, a snake, and an armadillo. The bear then asks a rabbit who is wearing a red pointy hat.

He asks a fox and a frog if they have seen it, but neither has. Plot Ī bear laments his lost hat, and sets off to find it. The book was published by Candlewick Press in September 2011. It was Klassen's first book as both author and illustrator. I Want My Hat Back is a 2011 children's picture book by author and illustrator Jon Klassen.

I want my hat back