Canadian author and illustrator Jon Klassen has become the first Canadian creator to receive the Astrid Lindgren Memorial ...

Like Klassen's very funny and much-praised I Want My Hat Back, this story involves a hat theft; this time, Klassen ups the ante by having the thief narrate. It's a small gray fish who has stolen a ...

Award-winning author and illustrator Jon Klassen is best known for children's books like I Want My Hat Back and This Is Not My Hat. There are no hats to be found in his latest book, which is also ...

If you come upon a group of children who have a shifty look, with their heads turned to one side and their eyes sliding around in a meaning way, chances are you’re encountering kids who’ve just ...

To get a sense of just how big a deal Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen are in the world of kids books, consider this: Reciting a ...

Jon Klassen didn't want the truck to move. That's the one thing the children's book author and illustrator knew when he started working on his latest book, Your Truck. A part of that had to do with ...

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Author and illustrator Jon Klassen throws a turtle, an armadillo, and a snake—oh, and a boulder falling from above—into the mix in his latest picture-book comedy, The Rock from the Sky, which ...

For author and illustrator Jon Klassen, his imagined reader was always a child, reading silently to themselves. That changed when he set about writing his first board books — chunky cardboard volumes ...

When children’s book author and illustrator Jon Klassen visits schools to read his new book, “We Found a Hat” (Candlewick, ages 4-8, $17.99) he also likes to read “The Green Ribbon” from a collection ...