What did you want to be when you grew up?

Horace’s imagination takes off,  bringing the young reader along on an adventure around the theme of his big hat. Each big hat Horace dons tells a colorful tale of lifestyles and livelihoods. From berets to helmets to turbans, Horace’s hat journeys through vivid images and wonderful details, whisking the audience into his boldly-colored adventures. Each individual story is created with patterned text, perfect for the emerging reader.

Judy Palaferro’s stylized illustrations have their roots in both her teenage admiration for rock and roll album covers and the 1980s New York art scene. Ms. Palaferro works as a print and web designer and as a book buyer in a Colorado toy store, where she began developing artistically with inspiration from Arthur Ransome, Roald Dahl, and teddy bears.

Upon returning to New York City, Ms. Palaferro’s fascination with illustration flourished for eight years while she worked as a children’s graphic artist and textile designer in the fashion industry. Horace’s Big Hat displays her beautiful sense of bright and pleasing aesthetics and her love for imagination, and children’s art.

Horace’s Big Hat is Palaferro’s second book published by Umbrage. Her first, Color Bears, was published in 2009.

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Hardcover / $16.95
8.5″ × 11″
32 pages /15 full-color illustrations
ISBN: 978-1-884167-30-0
October 2011

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