When is a hat not a hat? When it’s not on Magritte’s head, of course!
Without pinching his ears or mussing his hair, the painter Magritte's hat floats overhead and helps him to paint. But can he paint without it?
Not in a surreal world where paint can fly and where a marvelous hat can play hide-and-seek.
With special picture-changing “Overlay Pages” you may never have seen in a children’s picture book!
ABOUT THE BOOK
One bright day in the dark of night you look at your reflection in a window and see the back of your head. You try on a hat that floats in the air... READ MORE»
Magritte's Marvelous Hat
is a child-friendly, playful homage to one of the Twentieth Century’s most celebrated artists, René Magritte.
REVIEWS
“Johnson recasts René Magritte as a dapper, blue-eyed hound and incorporates the painter’s surreal iconography into a visual tour de force.”
Kirkus
“D. B. Johnson is the finest illustrator among us...and this is his best book yet.”