The morning it went online, 1,000 viewers watched live. “I was convinced the only people to watch it would be my kids,” Wilde says. They never expected the shows to go viral. The first one, eight minutes long, took six hours to film. “I don’t know how to edit,” Nicholson admits. Photograph: Ian NicholsonĮach of the online shows was filmed in one dramatic take – a decision born out of necessity. Sam Wilde making puppets for I Want My Hat Back. A bike shop that had opened down the road was throwing out cardboard boxes the bear’s eyes were beads swiped from one of his daughter’s necklaces. The set of the first one just about fits into a shoebox, and was made from what Wilde had to hand. “I can’t stress how tiny everything was,” says Nicholson, who performed and directed the shows kneeling behind his kitchen table. The trilogy went viral and is now transferring – with bigger puppets, new actors and a good deal more cardboard – to the Little Angel theatre in London. “Even if that just lasted 15 minutes, that’s something I will always be proud of.” In the lockdown of spring 2020, Wilde and director Ian Nicholson created homemade online productions of Jon Klassen’s trilogy of subversive children’s picture books, starting with I Want My Hat Back, in which a ponderous bear searches for his missing pointy red hat. You can find a full set of discussion cards in the I Want My Hat Back Activity Bundle or as a separate pack.‘W e made nearly half a million kids happy with a cardboard box,” says set designer Sam Wilde. Is there a difference between the rabbit lying and the bear lying to the squirrel? If so, in what way?.What if the rabbit didn’t steal the bear’s hat?.Do you think the consequences of stealing the hat were appropriate? Why or why not?.Why do you think Jon Klassen leaves some pages wordless?.Why do you think the illustrator made p.Why do you think the deer asking the bear about its hat is an important part of the story?.What would have been a different way for the bear to deal with the rabbit stealing its hat?.What is your opinion of how the bear dealt with the rabbit once it found its hat?.Why do you think the rabbit stole the bear's hat? Why did it lie to the bear about taking its hat?.How did the illustrations help you understand the emotions and thoughts of the characters in I Want My Hat Back?.
You can also introduce different genres, authors and illustrators. You can model reading habits, strategies, fluency, tone, and eye contact. Read-aloud sessions are a wonderful way for children to understand the connection between written text and spoken language.
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