Charlie The Hat is a real gas to read. It’s a cute whimsical children’s book/primary reader about an animated baseball hat that bonds with a young boy named Jimmy and is subsequently lost. Found years later after battling the elements baring the scars of life, Charlie the hat is reunited with the now grown young man.
Charlie The Hat
With the aid of quality illustrations depicting Charlie’s expressions and emotions this book will have appeal to young readers.Charlie the Hat was inspired by the finding of an old hat on a river bank by the author. The story begins with the origins of the tattered hat and takes the reader through the hat’s life. Given as a gift, Charlie the hat bonds with young Jimmie Hunter and enjoys a happy all but brief relationship with the boy playing baseball and growing up. One day Charlie is lost, blown off Jimmy’s head during an ill fated pick-up truck ride. Charlie then finds himself alone for a long, long time experiencing the weather, emotions and other indignities. Charlie is eventually found by Jimmy’s grandfather, not realizing the hat was Jimmy’s, his grandfather stored Charlie the hat on an old rusty nail in a tool shed. Several years later all grown up, Jimmy Hunter returns to see his grandfather and rediscovers Charlie, his long lost friend.
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