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The Mitten

by Jan Brett

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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.
www.janbrett.com is one of the best author wesites I have seen. She has resources for teachers and parents and is willing to correspond.
  mmharvey | Nov 16, 2009 |
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. ( )
  Necampos | Nov 15, 2009 |
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!
Visit Jan Brett's website for more activities to do with this book. www.janbrett.com

Reading Level: 3/4 ( )
  emwaymire | Oct 30, 2009 |
Children will really enjoy this book. You learn about different animals, and you can do many fun activitys with this story. Jan Brett also has wonderful illistrations that children will really enjoy looking at. ( )
  jalann | Oct 27, 2009 |
This book is about a young Ukrainian boy named Nicki who wants his grandmother, Baba, to knit snow-white mittens for him. She warns him that if he loses one, it will be difficult to find in the white snow, but he insists on her still making them. Nicki's lost mitten went through several animals finding it before it got back to him, so it was stretched out once he got it back but atleast it was found. ( )
  smmote | Oct 25, 2009 |
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A Ukrainian boy named Nicki wants his grandmother Baba to knit snow-white mittens for him. She warns her grandson that a white mitten will be hard to find if he loses it in the snow, but of course he promptly does just that! What happens next is the surprising part, as a mole takes refuge in the lost mitten, then a rabbit, then a hedgehog, an owl, a badger, and a fox. If you think the mitten might be a wee bit stretched out at this point, just wait: "Then a big bear sniffed at the mitten. The animals were packed in tight, but the bear didn't care. He crawled in anyway." When a tiny mouse squeezes in, her whiskers tickle the bear's nose. He sneezes, and "Aaaaa-aaaaa-ca-chew!" all the animals fly out of their crocheted cave. As the mitten sails through the air, Nicki spots it, reclaims it, and takes it home to show his smiling Baba.

Jan Brett is the illustrator of many well-known folktales, fairy tales, and poems, such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears and The Owl and the Pussycat, by Edward Lear. Her special signature in her detailed artwork is the intricate borders, seen in this book as birch-bark panels with embroidered details and mitten-shaped vignettes offering additional insights into the story line. Brett is at her best when she illustrates animals, and the expressions on the faces of her creatures are a delight. She carefully researched the costumes, furniture, and house in this traditional Ukrainian tale--all are authentic. A fine story to read on a frosty night with a cup of hot chocolate, and if you ever get your fill of The Mitten, you can always try its delightfully original companion book, The Hat, winner of the 1998 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. (Ages 4 to 8)

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