Thursday, January 20, 2011

Hats















Hilda Crumm’s Hats
by Linda Hendry

Hilda loves every kind of junk there is, and she is always bringing home new kinds of junk. Hilda has junk all over her apartment and on her balcony, and it makes her very happy. Her neighbors, though, are not very happy. The neighbors ask Hilda to clean off her balcony. While she is cleaning the balcony, some of the junk falls down on top of Hilda’s head. Then Hilda hears a car suddenly stop. There is a lady in pink in a pink car that asks Hilda where she got the cute hat on her head. (The junk that has fallen onto Hilda’s head looks like a hat.) Hilda tells the lady that she “made” the hat. The lady asks Hilda to make her a hat for a party that she was going to on Friday. The people at the party love the hat, and soon, Hilda’s phone is ringing with orders for many different kinds of hats. Will making these hats leave any junk around Hilda’s apartment to make her happy? Will Hilda continue to make the hats if she uses all the junk she has?





















Millie’s Marvellous Hat
by Satoshi Kitamura

Millie stops at the hat shop while walking home from school. She really likes one of the hats and goes inside to ask about it. Millie asks the man behind the counter to see the hat, and she really likes it. The hat costs a lot of money, and Millie asks the man if he has a hat that costs the amount of money she has (which is none). The man goes, gets a hat box, and places a hat on Millie’s head. He tells Millie that her “new” hat can be anything that she imagines it. On the way home, Millie thinks about a lot of different kinds of hats, such as a peacock hat, cake hat, flower hat, and many other different kinds of things that she sees. Will Millie’s imaginary hat be the only hat that she sees? What will Millie’s parents think about her new hat?























Whose Hat is That?
by Ron Roy and photographs by Rosmarie Hausherr

First there is a question, such as “Who wears a straw hat with a wide brim?” Then behind each of the questions is an answer. The page also tells you why that group of people wears that kind of hat. The hats that are asked about in the book include: wool hats, waterproof hats, hats with nets, hard hats, chef hats, paper hats, firefighters’ hats, cowboy hats, and many others. Do you have a favorite hat that you really like to wear? See if your hat is somewhere in this book. Will there be a hat that you might wear some day?



















Don’t Touch My Hat
by James Rumford

In a town called Sunshine, there is a sheriff named Sheriff John. With Sheriff John’s ten-gallon hat, he can round up rustlers, stop fights at the saloon, save ladies in distress, and take care of any robbers that might come into Sunshine. Sheriff John does not believe that he can do these things without his hat. So he tells other people not to touch his hat while he is at the barber, taking a bath, or at home with his wife. Sheriff John’s wife, Lil, believes that Sheriff John likes his hat more than her, but she has a lot of hats, too. She had just bought a really fancy one yesterday. One night, rustlers were at a ranch, robbers were at the bank, there was a fight at the saloon, and there could also be a range-war. Sheriff John picks up his hat and goes to work. Will Sheriff John grab the right hat when he goes out to take care of all the trouble? Will he always have to have his ten-gallon hat to be a good sheriff?

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