Nicki convinces his Grandmother Baba, against her better judgment, to knit him white mittens. You will be drawn into Nikki and the animals’ adventures as the forest friends enjoy their new snug and cozy resting place, Nicki’s lost  mitten. A delightful Ukrainian folktale to warm the heart! ( )

Nicki's grandmother knits him a new pair of mittens. He loses one in the woods and many different animals try to take shelter in the mitten. It stretches and stretches until everyone is pushed out of the mitten. Nicki finds his enlarged mitten and returns home to show his grandmother.

The Mitten is about a little boy who wants his grandmother to make him white mittens, but she's afraid he's going to loose them in the snow. He finally convinces her, but the first time he goes out he looses one mitten and several animals take refuge inside it while the little boy plays.
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Reading Level 3.0

The Mitten is such a fun book for winter time. It has such cute animals who all find this mitten and try to make it their home. It is fun to think of all these animals cramming together inside of a tiny mitten, and for kids to pretend things are inside of their mittens. The mitten lands back in the hands of the little boy, but stretched and larger than the other one. It is fun to read to kids because they know why it is stretched out, yet the little boy does not. ( )

Nicki's grandmother knits him brand new white mittens for winter and warns him that they would be difficult to keep up with if dropped in the snow. But Nicki insists, and his grandmother gives in. On the first day outside with the snow mittens, Nicki drops one on the ground. While he is looking around for it, all of the animals begin to burrow inside the warm mitten. The knitted mitten stretches larger and larger until finally the bear sneezes and everyone shoots out of the mitten. Soon, Nicki finds his mitten, unaware of the events that have taken place while it was lost. He returns home to his grandmother with both mittens, although one is quite larger than the other! The story ends with a picture of the grandmother looking at the mittens--a great opportunity for students to draw their own picture and decide what they think the grandmother said to the young boy!!--a humorous and fun story!
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Reading Level: 3/4 ( )