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Jon Klassen

May 2022

  • Going on a bear-hat hunt … Ian Nicholson in the original digital production of I Want My Hat Back.

    I Want My Hat Back: Jon Klassen classic goes from shoebox-sized puppet show to the stage

    Two friends delighted half a million kids with a tiny production in a cardboard box. Now they’re sizing up the much-loved bulbous bear for the Little Angel theatre

October 2016

  • Chris Riddell appointed Waterstones Children's Laureate<br>Author, illustrator and political cartoonist Chris Riddell, right, poses for a photograph after he was unveiled as the new Waterstones Children's Laureate at a ceremony at BAFTA in London. The author accepted the Children's Laureate Medal from outgoing Laureate Malorie Blackman, left.

    Nominations for Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals 2017 announced

    Children’s laureates Chris Riddell and Malorie Blackman vie with past winners and new faces for the UK’s most prestigious prizes in children’s writing and illustrating

May 2016

  • Simon Cowell

    Children's books
    The children's books Simon Cowell needs to read

    Simon Cowell has announced that he’s writing a children’s book - because the ones he’s reading to his son are ‘boring’. We’ve got some better suggestions for him. What do you think?

April 2016

  • Detail of an illustration by Jon Klassen.

    The Nest by Kenneth Oppel review – tenderly realistic, but very odd indeed

    The story of a new baby and a nest of wasps exists in that strange, nostalgic realm between realism and fantasy

March 2016

  • Patrick Ness

    Children's books
    Carnegie medal and Kate Greenaway shortlists 2016 announced

  • Image 8 The Nest

    Children's books
    The Nest by Kenneth Oppel and Jon Klassen - in pictures

January 2016

  • Jon Klassen's fish from This Is Not My Hat

    Children's books
    What are the best picture books starring fish?

    From Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Tiddler to Jon Klassen’s vengeful This Is Not My Hat, the Book Doctor dives into her bookshelves to pull out wonderful fishy tales

November 2015

  • Marek Larwood (Bear) in I Want My Hat Back at the National Theatre

    I Want My Hat Back review – National's Christmas show bears gifts for all

    Wils Wilson turns Jon Klassen’s laconic picture book into a boisterous delight of a show that keeps no secrets about the land of make-believe from its audience

September 2015

  • Bear Hunt

    Children's books
    Mick and Chloe Inkpen’s top 10 author/illustrator pairings in picture books

    The father-and-daughter picture book team select their favourite picture book pairings, from classics Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake, AA Milne and EH Shepard to Lemony Snicket and Jon Klassen

August 2014

  • Sam and Dave Dig a Hole

    Children's books
    Sam and Dave Dig a Hole by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen – watch the trailer!

    The co-creators of Extra Yarn have a new book coming out in October, Sam and Dave Dig a Hole. It is all about two friends who decide to start digging for treasure and the adventure they embark on.

    To celebrate, Mac and Jon ventured out into the California desert, and this is what happened…

23 June 2014

  • Kevin Brooks and Jon Klassen

    Children's books
    Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medal winners 2014: Kevin Brooks and Jon Klassen are victorious

    Proof that children don't need books with happy endings: Kevin Brooks' The Bunker Diary and Jon Klassen's This Is Not My Hat achieve the ultimate gold star

  • I want my hat back trail

    Children's books
    Kate Greenaway medal winner 2014 Jon Klassen shines a light on how he creates his illustrations - children's books podcast

    John Klassen talks us through the process of creating I Want My Hat Back and his collaboration with Lemony Snicket: The Dark

  • THis is not my hat trail

    Children's books
    Jon Klassen: Kate Greenaway medal winner 2014 – in pictures

    The author and illustrator of the modern day classic This Is Not My Hat takes us on a revealing guided tour of the book that won the hearts and souls of this year's judges

March 2014

  • Carnegie medal

    Children's books
    Carnegie medal and Kate Greenaway shortlists 2014 announced!

    Anne Fine is trying for a hat-trick in the Carnegie and Jon Klassen competes against himself for a Kate Greenaway medal – the awards that authors and illustrators "most want to win" – how many books on the shortlist have you read?

May 2013

  • How to draw a bear by Jon Klasson

    Children's books
    How to draw... a bear thinking about something by Jon Klassen - in pictures

    Paws at the ready, king of the bears Jon Klassen has got the bear necessities you need to draw your own cute cub - without the grizzlies

April 2013

  • The Dark by Jon Klasson - screengrab from trailer

    Children's books
    The Dark by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Jon Klassen - watch the trailer

    Lemony Snicket, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events, has written a picture book. Not only that, he's got Jon Klassen, who drew This Is Not My Hat, to illustrate it, and Neil Gaiman to read it. We think that's quite cool. Here's the trailer - what do you think?

September 2011

  • Trailer blazers
    Watch the trailer for a new picturebook, I Want My Hat Back

    I Want My Hat Back is a new picturebook by Jon Klassen that tells the tale, completely in dialogue, of a bear who has lost his headware. Watch the trailer and see what you think

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