Millie's Marvellous Hat
By (Author) Satoshi Kitamura
Andersen Press Ltd
Andersen Press Ltd
29th April 2010
29th April 2010
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
823.914
Short-listed for CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal (UK).
Paperback
32
Width 230mm, Height 3mm, Spine 280mm
210g
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 *
Satoshi Kitamura was born in Tokyo and worked in advertising there before moving to London in 1980. He won the Mother Goose Award for Angry Arthur and he is now one of the most distinguished illustrators in Britain, having created over 20 books for children.