Mel Ferrer Writings
Going Places, Seeing People

Mel Ferrer's children's story "Tito's Hats" was included as a chapter in a homeschool text book published in 1970 by Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich. The text was rewritten (almost assuredly by Ferrer himself, who's listed as the author) to accommodate the graded vocabulary necessary in a beginning reader. The story was shortened quite a bit with more emphasis on the idea of a boy getting his first hair cut, and the illustrations were appropriately sunny and typical of text books of the era. The illustrator is Don Almquist.

 

For the original version: Tito's Hats