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Millie's Marvellous Hat

Satoshi Kitamura author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Andersen Press Ltd

Published:29th Apr '10

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Millie's Marvellous Hat cover

A heart-warming story with sensational illustrations from the award-winning Satoshi Kitamura, now available in paperback.

Millie loves hats, but she has no money and she can't afford to buy any of the lovely hats in town. Millie does dare, and soon she can not only see her own beautiful hat, but everyone else's hats as well.Millie loves hats, but she has no money and she can't afford to buy any of the lovely hats in town. But the man in the hat shop has an idea. He produces a box containing a hat too fine and beautiful to behold, but with the most perfect shape and colour imaginable, if Millie dares to imagine it. Millie does dare, and soon she can not only see her own beautiful hat, but everyone else's hats as well.

"Kitamura's stylised, angular illustrations are immediately recognisable… encourages empathy." * Culture Sunday Times *
"Vibrant, colourful...a wonderful life-affirming story told in an unsentimental style" -- Jake Hope * The Bookseller *
"leads you to emphathise, to learn that you might affect other people's moods and to appreciate individuality" -- Nicolette Jones * The Sunday Times *
"Kitamura is one of the world's most original and stylish children's illustrators" * Sunday Times *
"full of potential for talking, wondering, writing and creating in two and three dimensions" * Books for Keeps *

  • Short-listed for CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal (UK).

ISBN: 9781842709481

Dimensions: 3mm x 230mm x 280mm

Weight: 210g

32 pages