FICTION

The Pink Hat

by Andrew JOYNER
illus. by Andrew Joyner. 32p. Random/Schwartz & Wade. Dec. 2017. Tr $17.99. ISBN 9781524772260.
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PreS-Gr 1—Simple grayscale illustrations and short sentences pop with pink as the story of a pink hat is told. Readers follow the knitted hat from its creation to a series of adventures including a cat, a tree, a small child, a dog, and a little girl, who wears her pink hat to a march where everyone else wears a pink hat, too. The text does not mention the 2017 Women's March per se, but a short paragraph in the back matter does. Interestingly, the author-illustrator is an Australian man. The story reads almost like a Dr. Seuss story, with simple repeating phrases, and does not comment on the political situation or get specific about what the pink hat represents, though the signs at the protest read "The Future is Feminist" and "Women's Rights are Human Rights." The cartoon art and the text stay very light.
VERDICT A gentle, upbeat story of a hat that happens to represent much more than meets the eye.
Reviewed by Lisa Nowlain, Nevada County Community Library, CA , Feb 01, 2018

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