THIS IS NOT A COWBOY HAT is a small argument with a big idea inside it. Brain makes a hat. He says it's a cowboy hat. Crutch says it's not. What follows isn't really a fight about hats-it's a disagreement about how people decide what things are. Is something defined by how it looks? What it's used for? Or how it feels to the person holding it? Through a funny back-and-forth and a few familiar examples, Brain and Crutch discover that arguments can happen when people are using different rules without realizing it-and that sometimes understanding comes from stopping and saying, "Oh. That's not how I was thinking about it." THIS IS NOT A COWBOY HAT is a gentle, thoughtful picture book about perspective, identity, and learning how to pause in the middle of a disagreement.