Who ate my hat?

The repetition invites readers to anticipate each animal’s answer, while expressive faces make the characters’ changing feelings easy to notice and discuss.

The owner discovers the much-loved hat is missing and looks startled and upset. The owner accuses the zebra of eating it; the zebra appears sorry and offers to make a replacement, and they make new hats together.

How can you tell what the hat means to its owner? What do you make of the zebra’s apology and offer to make a new one?

Pause at each animal’s reply and invite a prediction about who might have eaten the hat. Afterwards, look together at how the owner and zebra’s expressions change.