"Some people think hats are fancy things you can buy at a dressy store, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. In this book, acorns and raspberries are snug hats for your fingers, and an empty pudding cup is a good hat for a stuffed bear. Pajama pants make dangly hats, books can be dramatic hats, and bubbles make very fine hats as well (if temporary)"--

A bear almost gives up his search for his missing hat until he remembers something important.

"A tiny fish proudly wears a blue hat. It fits him perfectly. Problem is, trouble could be following close behind... So it's a good thing that the enormous fish he took it from won't wake up. And even if he does, it's not as though he'll ever know what happened, right?"--

Minerva Louise, a snow-loving chicken, mistakes a pair of mittens for two hats to keep both ends warm.

A zany but well-meaning cat brings a cheerful, exotic, and exuberant form of chaos to a household of two young children one rainy day while their mother is out.

Harold is a very special bear who always wears a woolly hat, so when a crow steals the hat from him, he tries to win it back.

Can the perfect old hat really be replaced by a new one?

A big, severe, plaid-hat-wearing dog insists that the small black cat in the red fez shouldn't be wearing a hat -- any kind of hat -- because hats are for dogs. His patronizing tirade doesn't convince this cat, however. Defiantly, she wears an assortment of hats, described in the gleeful rhyming text, and brings in other cats to join the protest. The silliness of both text and pictures offers a cheerful take on bossiness and managing conflict, with...

"This is a picture book for very young children about having just the right hat, no matter what the occasion"-- Mr. Brown has a hat for every occasion. But today, every time he goes to the door, the hat he's wearing isn't quite right. Which hat will he end up wearing?

"Is that a horse wearing a hat, or is it a unicorn in disguise? It all depends on how you look at it in this charming story about finding the extraordinary in the ordinary."--Page [4] of cover.