''We Found a Hat'' is a 2016 children's picture book by the

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author and illustrator

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. It is about two

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s that come across a hat and what occurs when they decide to leave it be. In October 2019, Candlewick Press, the book's publisher, released a boxed set featuring ''We Found a Hat'' along with its two companion books (''

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'' and '' I Want My Hat Back''), calling it ''Jon Klassen’s Hat Box''. In 2018,

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, Inc. made an animated version of this book, narrated by Johnny Heller and

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Reception

''We Found a Hat'' was received favorably, with a number of starred reviews including from ''

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'', '' Quill & Quire'', the ''

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'', and '' Booklist''. The ''New York Journal of Books'' wrote "The ending feels almost wrong, a bit too easy, too happily ever after but only in my dreams." and concluded "''We Found a Hat'' and the trilogy as a whole provides an entertaining, easy to read story on one level but also grants plenty of space for more complex and lively discussion." It has also been reviewed by ''

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''. Common Sense Media, ''

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'', and ''

The Horn Book ''The Horn Book Magazine'', founded in Boston in 1924, is the oldest bimonthly magazine dedicated to reviewing children's literature. It began as a "suggestive purchase list" prepared by Bertha Mahony Miller and Elinor Whitney Field, proprietres ...

''.

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