Hat by Paul Hoppe has a wonderful lesson for young children about finding something. When we find something we want to keep it. Just like Henry, we might imagine ourselves with it and want to keep the item, but we need to think about others. What if someone left that hat there or maybe someone else could use that hat for something much more important than anything we could imagine for ourselves. When Henry asks his mother if he can keep the hat he found his mom asks him "But, Henry, what if someone else needs that hat?" He begins to imagine all kinds of situations where someone else could really need the hat. We are faced with so many decisions in our lives and even a small decision over keeping something we find could make a big impact for someone else. What a great book for learning this lesson.
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