Millie's Marvellous Hat

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.

Short-listed for CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal (UK).

"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.

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...

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