I Want My Hat Back
"The funniest book ever written" - Guardian. Now in board book for babies and toddlers, a laugh-out-loud gift from bestselling and multi-award-winning picture book maker Jon Klassen
Jon Klassen for the smallest hands! The very first HAT book in board book form.
OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD
A New York Times Bestseller and Best Illustrated Book
Voted one of the BBC’s 100 Greatest Picture Books of All Time
“The funniest book ever written” Guardian
“One of the simplest yet most original and entertaining picture books around” Telegraph
“Astonishing. A charmingly wicked little book.” The New York Times
“Equally as funny for adults as kids.” Romesh Ranganathan, The I Paper, The Best Bedtime Books of All Time
Bear's hat is gone.
And he wants it back.
Collect all three HAT books:
I Want My Hat Back
This is Not My Hat
We Found a Hat
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Creators
Jon Klassen is the creator of the #1 New York Times bestselling I Want My Hat Back, which received a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor, and its companions, This Is Not My Hat, which won a Caldecott Medal and a Kate Greenaway Medal, and We Found a Hat, named a Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book of the Year. He is also the creator of the Your Places and Your Things board book series, as well as the picture books The Rock from the Sky and The Skull. He is the illustrator of How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?, Extra Yarn, Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, and the Shapes Trilogy, all by Mac Barnett. For his contributions to children’s literature, Jon Klassen is a member of the Order of Canada and was named the 2026 recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Originally from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Jon Klassen now lives in Los Angeles.
