Hats - (Talk-About-Books) by Debbie Bailey (Board Book)

About the Book

Talk-About-Books feature a simple text and engaging photographs intended to encourage discussion and the development of literacy. Each book is illustrated with realistic and comforting photographs. Children from various familial, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds experience friends and pets in their many wonderful incarnations. The simple text and engaging photos invite and encourage discussion between adult and child as they have fun exploring the images together.

Book Synopsis

This innovative series grew out of a desire to provide all children with the opportunity to see themselves within the books they are reading and to identify with the children and families they see. The diversity of today's families is clearly captured. The simple text and engaging photographs explore the relationship between very young children and their environment. Hats explores a young child's world using photographs of a variety of children playing and wearing hats.

Review Quotes

The clear, bright words and pictures of a child's close-up world in the three sturdily bound titles I've seen-My Mom, Shoes and Hats-will be happily recognized by the series' audience. The children, photographed along with mothers, hats and shoes of great and cheerful variety, are unselfconscious, and Debbie Bailey's text matches them in matter-of-fact ness: ... The "Talk-About Books" have been designed with great care for the children who will see them. Pages are easy to turn, illustrations are large and framed with primary colours, the few words are carefully chosen and clearly laid out. Highly recommended for children three and under.--Joan Skogan"Canadian Materials" (11/01/1991)

The "Talk-About Books" have been designed with great care for the children who will see them... Highly recommended.--Joan Skogan"Canadian Materials" (11/01/1991)

About the Author

Debbie Bailey has a B.A. in Early Childhood Education, a B.Ed., and an M.A. in Applied Psychology. Her interest in board books developed when she began reading to her daughter. Debbie teaches kindergarten.

Sue Huszar has worked as a professional photographer for over 20 years. She started out as a photojournalist but went on to establish her own studio.