Mr. Zinger's Hat
by Cary Fagan
illustrated by Dusan Petricic
Cary Fagan is the award-winning author of several young adult novels and picture books. This wonderful new story is about stories, and story-telling, and is sure to enchant and instruct children at home and at school for years to come.
This is the story of a bored little boy, who meets a man, and together they build a story. This story within a story is charming and changes both their lives... and quite possibly the readers as well.
Cary Fagan has received the Toronto Book Award, the Jewish Book Committee Prize for Fiction, and the Mr. Christie Silver Medal. His recent picture books include Ten Old Men and a Mouse, My New Shirt, and Thing-Thing. His children's novels include The Fortress of Kaspar Snit (Silver Birch Honor Book), Directed by Kaspar Snit (Silver Birch nominee), and Ten Lessons for Kaspar Snit. Cary Fagan lives in Toronto.
Dusan Petricic is the award-winning illustrator of more than twenty books for children including My New Shirt by Cary Fagan. A former professor of illustration and book design, his work appears in The New York Times, Scientific American, The Wall Street Journal, and The Toronto Star. He lives in Toronto.
“Every child needs a Mr. Zinger – and his hat! – in his or her life…. This book oh-so-softly brings across a sweet, multigenerational message about sharing the power of imagination.”
—Booklist
“The illustrations by Dušan Petrièiæ are beautiful and very expressive.”
—Highly Recommended, CM Magazine
Praise for Thing-Thing, by Cary Fagan:
"Thing-Thing, a beautifully rendered and wickedly imaginative tale of an unwanted toy.... Never has falling out of a building been made to seem so heartbreaking - and yet so fun to read about."
— Books of the Year, Quill & Quire
"Fagan's story, and its serendipitous end, will please those on laps or large groups; Debon's vertiginous cityscapes, with wildly varying perspectives and orientations supported by a leaping, swirling typeface, are just as good a match to the text as Thing-Thing and its new owner."
—Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews
"...an oh-so-felicitous marriage of bright, edgy yet heart-warming text and quite
marvelous and page-filling illustration...."
—The Globe and Mail
