Children’s book author Jon Klassen and the morally ambiguous universe of hats

Do you have a child in your life? You might be a teacher, or a parent, or an aunt or an uncle. You might be none of those things and still find ways to be involved with children who are somehow in your life — and you might be looking for children’s books for them to read. ” Children’s book author Jon Klassen and the morally ambiguous universe of hats” discusses an author and his popular book.

Key Takeaways:

• When children’s book author and illustrator Jon Klassen visits schools to read his new book, “We Found a Hat,” he also likes to read “The Green Ribbon” from a collection of scary children’s stories by Alvin Schwartz titled “In a Dark, Dark Room.”
• Klassen was recently in the heartland as part of his “We Found a Hat” book tour. The book, which is the third in a series of books about animals who have lethal attachments to their jaunty chapeaus, was released in early October and leaped onto bestseller lists.
• The hallmark of Klassen’s work is what is not shown but rather left to the imagination. His fictional universe, like the universe small children occupy, is a morally ambiguous one.

““I love ending the whole presentation with that because it’s such a mike drop of a story.””

http://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-jon-klassen-20161117-story.html