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Jon Klassen


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Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
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Jon Klassen received the 2010 Canadian Governor General’s Award for his illustrations in Caroline Stutson’s Cat's Night Out. He also created illustrations for the popular series The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place and served as an illustrator on the animated feature film Coraline (2009). I Want My Hat Back is the first book he has both written and illustrated. Originally from Niagara Falls, Canada, he lives in Los Angeles. ...more

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a chapter illustration for Amy Timberlake’s “Skunk and Badger�,...



a chapter illustration for Amy Timberlake’s “Skunk and Badger�, coming out in September

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Average rating: 4.11 · 265,543 ratings · 36,603 reviews · 77 distinct worksSimilar authors
I Want My Hat Back

4.35 avg rating — 34,109 ratings — published 2011 — 68 editions
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This Is Not My Hat

4.22 avg rating — 25,236 ratings — published 2012 — 48 editions
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The Skull

4.23 avg rating — 10,839 ratings — published 2023 — 28 editions
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We Found a Hat

4.28 avg rating — 8,478 ratings — published 2016 — 33 editions
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The Rock from the Sky

4.19 avg rating — 3,740 ratings — published 2021 — 19 editions
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Jon Klassen's Hat Box

4.78 avg rating — 130 ratings2 editions
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Your Forest

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Your Island

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Your Farm

3.77 avg rating — 99 ratings7 editions
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Jon Klassen 3 Children Book...

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“What if I never see it again?
What if nobody ever finds it?
My poor hat.
I miss it so much.”
Jon Klassen, I Want My Hat Back
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“Last year in a library in Alaska I read a folk tale in a random book on a random shelf & have been thinking about it since & today I wrote the librarian w/ no book title or author & in 2 hrs I had a scan of the story & cover in my inbox -- Librarians should be running everything. [Twitter]”
Jon Klassen

“We both have hats?”
Jon Klassen, We Found a Hat

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