by Kate Hoefler
illustrated by Jessixa Bagley
illustrated by Jessixa Bagley
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00:00For all the mars and bears in this world.
00:07KH.
00:08For Taylor.
00:10JB.
00:11Courage Hats.
00:14Written by Kate Huefler.
00:17Illustrated by Jess Ikeser Bagley.
00:20Not everyone loves a train.
00:23That's the world.
00:24But sometimes.
00:26You have to take one anyway.
00:29For May, the train went deep into bear places.
00:33A bear was big and ate small things.
00:36And May was small.
00:39For Bear, the train went deep into people places.
00:43A person was small and ate big things.
00:46And Bear was big.
00:49Courage is something that comes from your heart but if you can't find it there you
00:52can wear it on your head at first.
00:55She wore a special hat so a bear would think she was just another bear.
01:00Bear wore a special hat so a person would think he was just another person.
01:06But it takes a while for a heart to catch up to a hat.
01:10So May found a big grown-up to sit with.
01:14And Bear found a small cub to sit with.
01:25Honey in your tea?
01:36May asked the grown-up.
01:38Thank you Bear said to the cub.
01:41And off they went.
01:43No matter how you feel about a train.
01:46Someone else feels the same way.
01:49You're lucky if that someone has a blanket and snack.
01:53There was a lot to notice too.
01:56Especially the big things they could have missed.
01:59How a train carries the sky on its back.
02:02How birds join it.
02:05How to make a friend How also thinks this feels like flying.
02:10The train went places where it's easy to get lost.
02:14Chugging sky on back, sky on back.
02:17But a train is never lost.
02:20And they began to feel less lost on it.
02:23When the train went deep deep in the woods.
02:27May wondered if she might find herself near Bears.
02:30I'm glad you're with me.
02:33She said to the grown-up.
02:35Because she'd never been so deep in a bear place.
02:39Without the grown-up, she might have missed what was right next to her.
02:44And when the train went deep deep in the city.
02:48Bear wondered if he might find himself near people.
02:52I'm glad you're with me.
02:54He said to the small cub.
02:57Because he had never been so deep in a people place.
03:01Without the cub, he might have missed what was right next to him.
03:06Because not everyone loves a train.
03:09That's the world.
03:11There may be bears.
03:13There may be people.
03:15But the friend you make in a deep place is an important friend.
03:38So important that when the trip is over, you give each other something special.
03:44And when you take you hat off someone else will too.
03:47That too, is the world.
03:50Kate Hoofler received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan where she studied
03:56as a Colby Fellow.
03:58She is the author of Rabbit and the Motorbike and other beloved books for young readers.
04:04She lives in a quiet village in Ohio that is between bear places and people places.
04:10She dreams of someday taking a train ride through parts of Alaska but is still dreaming
04:15up the right courage hat for the occasion.
04:19Jess Ixaback Lee grew up in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon, where she developed a love
04:24of hamburgers drawing and anthropomorphic food.
04:28Her books have won the SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Best Picture Book Text Multiple Junior
04:35Library Guild Selections and an Ezra Jack Keats Honor Award for Writing, among many
04:40other awards.
04:42She lives in Seattle, Washington.
04:45The End