The Missing Mitten Mystery

A girl loses her fifth mitten of the winter and, accompanied by a cute dog, backtracks her day's activities in hopes of finding it. And what a day it was, with snow forts, snowball fights, snow angels and snowmen. Additionally, she repeatedly imagines fanciful ways her mitten might be used by various forest animals if they found it.

The ending is a bit schmaltzy, but works.

My daughter and I both enjoyed this when she was five.

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This retelling of the author's own The Mystery of the Missing Red Mitten is substantially different with additional pages, all-new illustrations, and significantly revamped text.

A lovely illustrated book about Oscar, who lost yet another mitten, the fifth that winter. Knowing he will be in big trouble when he gets home. After a trek with his dog which back tracks where they were that day, in the end, the mitten is discovered embedded on the heart of the snowman made previously that day.

I very much enjoyed the illustrated in this book.

The Missing Mitten Mystery (Picture Puffin Books) by Steven Kellogg (2002)
Annie and her dog Oscar go on a search for her missing mitten. Along the way they find their friends missing things but no mitten. They see many animals on their search. At the end of the book, they return home to find the mitten frozen on a snowman like a heart.

This book is a realistic work of fiction. The pictures are illustrated with water colors. It is easy to read and has a really cute story line.

The little girls red mitten goes missing and she has to back track and look for her mitten everywhere she was that day, when she finds it, it is in the snowman she had built right where his heart would be. I think this is such a cute book and it is kind of a mystery book where she has to search for her mitten with her dog. When the snow starts to melt a little big she sees that the snowman has a red heart and figures out that it is her mitten! I think that this is a first grade reading level.

This is a cute book about a little girl who loses her mitten. She had lost several mittens this particular winter and so she looked everywhere for it. She retraced everywhere she had been that day but no mitten. She found other things but never her mitten. While she was looking for the mitten she was imagining all the places it could be. Did an animal take it to keep warm? She asked many questions like this. In the end, she went into the house because it began raining and as her snowman melted he appeared to have a heart. It was her mitten stuck in the snow of the snowman. This is a good book for kindergarten or first graders. I would use this book when it began to get cold outside and the children were wearing mittens, coats, and show more scarfs to school. show less

Yes, I am reading adult books as well, but meanwhile, this is another adorable Kellogg book! Who can't relate to losing things, especially mittens and gloves?! Love the illustrations, especially of the mitten tree. Cute story ending, too.

A little boy had lost his mitten and so he begins the search for it. Throughout this book he tries to explore different ideas as to where his mitten could have gone, and in the process he develops a plan to "grow" more mittens so that it won't matter if he loses them as he always does. In the end he finds out that his mitten was not lost, but just hidden in the heart of his snowman.