TITLE: The Hat
AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Jan Brett
PUBLISHER: Putnam Juvenile PUBLICATION DATE: October 4,1999
GENRE: Big Picture Book READING LEVEL: Pre k- 2nd Grade
BRIEF OVERVIEW: When Lisa was hanging her woolen clothes outside one of her mittens flew of and caught on Hedgie the hedgehog’s head. All the animals laughed at him, but he told them good reasons why to wear a hat. They all got to thinking and by the end of the story all the animals were wearing hats.
INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: We could do a sequence of events on the smartboard. There would be pictures and a timeline of the story. The children could drag the picture and play it on the timeline where it occurred in the story.
REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Carley Craft, Valdosta State University ECSE
LABELS: Picture Book, Animals, Easy Reader
