Millies Marvellous Hat (Andersen Press Picture Books) by Satoshi Kitamura

aw an old lady
was wearing a dark, murky pond hat.
e smiled at her and
irds and the fish leapt out of
e’s hat and onto the old lady’s.

Millie fe

elt like singing.





And so did her hat.



By the time
Millie
arrived back
home, her
hat had
grown so
tall that
she
couldn’t
walk
through
the door!

So she
thought of
another hat . . .



“How do you like my new hat?”
she asked when she saw her mum
“New hat?” said her mum. “But
Then she stopped and smiled. “
I wish I had one too.”
“But you do have one,” said Mil

m and dad.
t you haven’t . . .”
“It’s a marvellous hat, Millie.

llie. “You only have to imagine it!”





And she w
Everyone has their ver

was right.
ry own marvellous hat.





“Kitamura is one of the
world’s most original
and stylish children’s
illustrators.”
—The Sunday Times

Satoshi Kitamura was

born in Tokyo and worked in
advertising there before

moving to London in 1980.
He received New York Times

Notable Book of the Year
honors for his illustrations in
A Boy Wants a Dinosaur and
Ned and the Joybaloo, and the

Mother Goose Award for
Angry Arthur. He is now one

of the most distinguished
illustrators in Britain, having
created more than 20 books

for children.

Jacket illustrations © 2009 by Satoshi Kitamura

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—THE SUN

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of the world’s most
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