Jon Klassen
Author · 15 books
Jon Klassen is a Canadian author and illustrator of picture books. His book I Want My Hat Back received the German Youth Literature Prize in the picture-book category in 2013. In the same year, he won the Caldecott Medal, one of the leading US awards for picture books, for This Is Not My Hat, the second volume in his hat trilogy. In 2020, his picture-book trilogy featuring Triangle, Square, and Circle also received the German Youth Literature Prize.