Hats Off?!

Hats Off?! Hats; hats and caps - people of all nations and cultures wear them. Hats and caps are likely one of the most underrated ways that people of all ages and cultures use to express themselves. Wear one cap and you're a big fan of a favorite sports team; put on the right hat and you're ready to stroll along the walkways of an ancient Mediterranean seaside village. Whether worn for fun, function of fashion, hats are awarded a lofty and oh-so-visible position when we face the world. When you wear a hat, it becomes an unmistakable, recognizable part of your personality. But...lose a favorite hat? It's like losing a part of you...an old friend, a long-time accomplice. What? My hat is gone? Where could it be? How did this happen? Did someone take it? Suddenly, we are lonely, and alone. No hat to guard and shield us, to keep us warm in the winter, shelter us from the rain, or shade from the summer sun, No hat to make a simple statement of what's important to us right now. The lesson in Hats Off?!, of course, is that we cause our own situations and label some of them "problems". And, we also often have the means to solve these "problems", when we stop to listen, and accept help from our friends. Best Story Alive creates "Fun Stories for Living & Learning". In this, his second book, Jim Best takes a different path to get the same result: a life lesson that is fun to read, and easy to understand, wonderfully illustrated by Emily Victory Lynch, it is what Jim calls "A Fun Rhymer", where the easy rhyming makes the story such fun to read, and the lesson much more memorable.