The Hat Shop 'READ TOGETHER' series is formatted to provide a launching platform for early readers along with a segment of adult read text to provide greater depth to the story. Each page has large font sentences focusing on alliterations to support new readers. Each facing page contains the story illustrations and a paragraph of further text for the adult to read.'Ashleigh Buys a Hat', like all books in the series, presents gender neutral insights into career pathways. The duel text option allows the readers to initially share the literary experience while providing a platform to extend young readers towards independence in reading the whole of the text on each page.