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Reviews for Happy Birthday Madame Chapeau

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"More than a mere treat of storytelling and illustration, Happy Birthday, Madame Chapeau offers a subtle but profound deconditioning of our most toxic cultural tropes. There are no stereotypes in this charming book, only the diversity of human experience in its real dimensions." --Brain Pickings

"If, like Madame Chapeau, you love feathers, ribbons and pom-poms, then this is the book for you.  A sweet tale of loneliness, creativity and friendship, Happy Birthday Madame Chapeau is a picture book that fills you with that warm, fuzzy feeling and has you wishing that you too owned such a fine collection of head wear."
--The Illustrated Forest

"Picture books by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts. The pair behind Rosie Revere, Engineer and Iggy Peck, Architect have a new book out next month that's just as entertaining. The illustrations in Happy Birthday, Madame Chapeau are fabulously detailed and based on real hat designs! (Charlie Chaplin makes a cameo.)"
 --USA Today PopCandy


"With a text that can only be described as jaunty (and masterful in its inventive settings on the page), Beaty carries the bounces and lilts to the very last page. Roberts' colorful, exaggerated hats (many of which are modeled on real designs) whimsically adorn the multicultural Parisian public. . . .  The underlying suggestion that no one is as alone as they believe is lovely enough, but te fun of reading this aloud elevates it even more."  --Kirkus

"Happy Birthday Madame Chapeau, is a perfect book." --Written in the Kitchen Sink 

"Like Like dessert, Happy Birthday, Madame Chapeau is a wonderful thing and not to be missed!" --Books 4 Your Kids

"An inspired milliner named Madame Chapeau stars in this eminently stylish tale from the duo behind Iggy Peck, Architect and Rosie Revere, Engineer. . . .  Entirely in step with the buoyancy of Beaty's rhymes, Roberts revels in filling the streets of Paris with multiculturally modish figures wearing couture ensembles, topped off (quite literally) by gloriously elaborate headpieces." --Publishers Weekly

The talented team of Andrea Beaty and David Roberts bring another bright, brilliant spirit to the page. As with Iggy Peck, Architect and Rosie Revere, Engineer, this rhyming tale features a creative force in need of a helping hand. Illustrations throughout of striped, bejeweled and feathered headgear back up the text's claim that Madame Chapeau is the "world's finest hatmaker," but they also touchingly hint at the reason for her loneliness: a table adorned with framed photos of a dashing young soldier, probably killed in a recent war. On her birthday, Madame dons her favorite hat only to have it stolen by a mischievous crow. As she scours the stylish city for it, she meets many folks eager to offer their hats (chef toque, cowboy Stetson), but she finally meets a fashion-forward knitter who becomes the perfect friend. - Washington Parent



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Reviews for Happy Birthday Madame Chapeau
  • Brain Pickings
  • Babyccino Kids Blog
  • The Illustrated Forest
  • Publishers Weekly
  • USA Today 
  • Kirkus
  • Written in the Kitchen Sink
  • Cleveland.Com
  • Books 4 Your Kids
  • My Little Style File
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  • Washington Parent
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  • Kids' Book Review
  • This Picture Book Life
  • San Francisco Book Review
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  • MERP Book Review
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