HIRO'S HATS can be found at:
Children's Book World, Los Angeles, CA
Sausalito Books by the Bay, Sausalito, CA
Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA
The Reading Bug, San Carlos, CA
Pegasus Books, Berkeley, CA
Online Shops:
Bella Luna Toys
Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
For ordering information, please visit www.wildswanspublishing.coop
HIRO'S HATS
High in the mountains of Japan, Hiro, a little snow monkey, finds a beautiful
hat. "Snow monkeys don't need hats!" his brother tells him.
But Hiro's hat does more than keep him warm -- it is also a friend. Only a robin understands. And when Hiro's hat disappears, she surprises him,
in time, with two more hats, each as playful and full of life as his first.
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News and reviews:
"Kleven's joyous art is instantly recognizable to her readers. Her colorful palette and use of movement and fantastical detail make her stories page turning reads...A lovely addition to elementary library shelves."
-- School Library Journal
"Delicately beautiful collage art in colors that evoke harsh snowy winters and lush, blooming springs. A page of back matter is dedicated to fun facts about snow monkeys. The lyrical prose makes for an engaging storytime or bedtime option."
-- Association of Children's Librarians "Outstanding Pick"
"In this gently whimsical yarn, an imaginative little snow monkey named Hiro sees 'a hat one day, flying like a bright bird through the sky.' ... The story twines toward happy endings for all. Mixed-media collage illustrations show sweet-faced, woolly-bodied monkeys at play in richly textural landscapes. Through Hiro, Kleven sympathetically illustrates young children’s ability to find emotional connections to inanimate objects, and the creative ways they can respond to stress."
--Publishers Weekly
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In fall of 2020, HIRO'S HATS was chosen as the elementary school title by Keplers' Literary foundation, in a program to spark the joy of reading in children in underserved schools. Read more here.
Learn more about HIRO'S HATS on author and children's literature aficionado Jama Kim Rattigan's beautiful blog, Alphabet Soup.
An original illustration from this book will be on exhibit at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art from December 14, 2019- May 10th, 2020 as part of the show Now and Then: Contemporary Illustrators and their Childhood Art, organized by Grace Lin and Jarret Krosoczka.
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Handmade Hiro and Robin doll
Pictures from the Carle Museum, including a few of the snow monkey collages children made, and HIRO'S HATS at the Museum Gift Shop. You can order the book from the store, and through the publisher's web site. Contact Elisa for an autographed copy of HIRO'S HATS
