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Kuskin, Karla

A Boy Had a Mother Who Bought Him a Hat

32 pp. | HarperCollins/Harper | March, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-075330-6 $16.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-06-075331-3 $17.89
New ed. (1976, Houghton)
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. What a joy to read aloud verse that scans, rhymes, and brims with repetition--while continually surprising with twists of sound and sequence. In this rollicking cumulative tale, a boy's mother "bought him a hat"--but she doesn't stop there. Hawkes's new illustrations get into the tall-tale spirit with exuberant views of the wide-eyed boy--an apt setting for Kuskin's comical hijinks.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: December, 1976; March, 2010

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