Buy My Hats!
By:
Frank and Carl have "hat-tastic" hats for sale, so why isn't anyone buying them? What they need is a more exciting product. Or better advertising. Or maybe just some divine intervention. Full-color illustrations were created with black pencil and charcoal on newsprint; color was added digitally.
ISBN: 9780399252754
JLG Release: Aug 2010
Sensitive Areas:
None
Topics:
Retail trade
, Hats
, Animals
, City markets
, Advertising
, Consumerism
, Problem solving
Praise & Reviews
Starred or favorable reviews have been received from these periodicals:
Booklist, The Horn Book Guide, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal
Horn Book
Frank and Carl--a bear and a fish, respectively--try to sell plain brown hats while animal street vendors around them successfully hawk flimflam such as "Remote Control Robot Cell Phones." Readers will root for sad-sack Frank and slightly-more-optimistic Carl in this witty riff on fickle consumerism. The gag-filled art, which was created on newspri Frank and Carl--a bear and a fish, respectively--try to sell plain brown hats while animal street vendors around them successfully hawk flimflam such as "Remote Control Robot Cell Phones." Readers will root for sad-sack Frank and slightly-more-optimistic Carl in this witty riff on fickle consumerism. The gag-filled art, which was created on newsprint and features dialogue balloons, has a Sunday-comics vibe.
Junior Library Guild
• A playful introduction to advertising and consumerism.
• Silliness abounds in bright cartoon-like art that portrays a wide range of animal characters.
• Includes a gentle commentary on consumerism: while customers are happily enjoying their new purchases one day, drinking their “Cups o’ Mud” while zooming about on skate
• A playful introduction to advertising and consumerism.
• Silliness abounds in bright cartoon-like art that portrays a wide range of animal characters.
• Includes a gentle commentary on consumerism: while customers are happily enjoying their new purchases one day, drinking their “Cups o’ Mud” while zooming about on skateboards and chattering away on their “remote control robot cell phones,” the next day, the abandoned remains of broken products tell a different story.
• An amusing and satisfying ending. Carl reduces the hats’ price repeatedly as the week progresses, but during a rainstorm he adds a zero, bringing the price from $1 back to the original $10.
Book Details
ISBN
9780399252754
First Release
August 2010
Genre
Fiction
Dewey Classification
E
Trim Size
8" x 10"
Page Count
32
Accelerated Reader
Level 2; Points: 0.5;
Scholastic Reading Counts
Level 1.1; Points: 1;
Lexile
N/AFormat
Print Book
Edition
-
Publisher
Putnam’s
Potentially Sensitive Areas
None
Topics
Retail trade, Hats, Animals, City markets, Advertising, Consumerism, Problem solving,
