Suitabook
Who ate my hat?
Griffin Shea
CC BY 4.0Credits & Licence
Originally published by Book Dash. Writer: Griffin Shea. Illustrator: El Marto. Designer: Thembelihle Radebe. Editor: Tiffany Mac Sherry.
Cover resized and converted to WebP; artwork unchanged. Suitabook’s AI guidance is a separate assessment.
Original Book on Book Dash: Who ate my hat? (opens in a new tab)- Reading
- 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.
- Themes
- Making amends: After the owner accuses the zebra of eating the missing hat, the zebra apologises and they make new hats together. Later, the animals share food. The story shows the zebra apologising after being wrongly accused, then making something together with the owner.
- Jumping to conclusions: The owner asks several animals whether they ate the hat; they deny it, and the owner later accuses the zebra. The repeated questions create a simple mystery, but the story does not clearly judge the owner’s suspicions.
- Worth knowing
- 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.