Review
Shortlisted --Kate Greenaway Award, 2010
"Few artists are able to bring the creative force of imagination to life with such verve and vim as Satoshi Kitamura. Vibrant, colourful and pleasingly stylised, this is a wonderful life-affirming story told in an unsentimental style. Gently comedic, its overarching message regarding internal riches lends the book a fairytale feel." --The Bookseller
"This book takes you on a sunny walk through streets, parks and interiors, and leads you to emphathise, to learn that you might affect other people's moods and to appreciate individuality." --The Sunday Times
"This is a thoughtful look at how with little effort of will, we can alter what's in our heads as well as what's on them." --The Sunday Times
"This is a beautiful new book from this award-winning author that is guaranteed to amuse children and fire their imaginations." --Nursery World
"Wonderful illustrations." --Angels and Urchins
"Gorgeous, mind-stretching picture book." --Independent on Sunday - Hit List
"The talented Kitamura has created a masterful urban fable for these credit crunch times." --School Librarian
"Kitamura's distinctive illustrations, with their use of crooked lines and quirky angular perspectives are, as always, fascinating and compelling." --Books For Keeps
"A picture book celebrating childhood imagination."
--Irish Times
This riotous imaginative story is all about the power of believing. Satoshi Kitamura's illustrations are a treat. --Guardian
"Few artists are able to bring the creative force of imagination to life with such verve and vim as Satoshi Kitamura. Vibrant, colourful and pleasingly stylised, this is a wonderful life-affirming story told in an unsentimental style. Gently comedic, its overarching message regarding internal riches lends the book a fairytale feel." --The Bookseller
"This book takes you on a sunny walk through streets, parks and interiors, and leads you to emphathise, to learn that you might affect other people's moods and to appreciate individuality." --The Sunday Times
"This is a thoughtful look at how with little effort of will, we can alter what's in our heads as well as what's on them." --The Sunday Times
"This is a beautiful new book from this award-winning author that is guaranteed to amuse children and fire their imaginations." --Nursery World
"Wonderful illustrations." --Angels and Urchins
"Gorgeous, mind-stretching picture book." --Independent on Sunday - Hit List
"The talented Kitamura has created a masterful urban fable for these credit crunch times." --School Librarian
"Kitamura's distinctive illustrations, with their use of crooked lines and quirky angular perspectives are, as always, fascinating and compelling." --Books For Keeps
"A picture book celebrating childhood imagination."
--Irish Times
This riotous imaginative story is all about the power of believing. Satoshi Kitamura's illustrations are a treat. --Guardian
Book Description
A heart-warming new story with sensational illustrations from the award-winning Satoshi Kitamura.
Product Description
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.
From the Back Cover
Millie loves the hats in the shop window but she can't afford them. The man in the hat shop might have a solution for her though, if she dares to imagine... A beautiful new book from the award-winning Satoshi Kitamura.
About the Author
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.
