This is not my hat ...

Today's post is the book blog's first EVER video post - even lockdown has a silver lining.  Many thanks to Dr Gaydon, who has generously shared with us his review of Jon Klassens's brilliant, award-winning picture book This Is Not My Hat. You can find it via the link here. 

If you're intrigued by Dr Gaydon's analysis, and you'd like to take a look at the story yourself but you don't have a copy of the book to hand, you can find a version of it read aloud on Youtube here.  And if you'd like to read another post that celebrates the subtle philosophical undertones of writing for children, take a look at former member of the English Dept Bernard O'Keeffe's deconstruction of David McKee's Not Now, Bernard, which you can find here.  Thanks once again to Dr Gaydon for pioneering the video book blog post - the first, but hopefully not the last!