The Mitten
What's The Mitten About
The bestselling modern classic, in an oversized board book edition perfect for sharing. When Nicki drops his white mitten in the snow, he goes on without realizing that it is missing. One by one, woodland animals find it and crawl in; first, a curious mole, then a rabbit, a badger and others, each one larger than the last. Finally, a big brown bear is followed in by a tiny brown mouse and what happens next makes for a wonderfully funny climax. As the story of the animals in the mitten unfolds, the reader can see Nicki in the borders of each page, walking through the woods unaware of what is going on. In her distinctive style, Jan Brett brings the animals to life with warmth and humor, and her illustrations are full of visual delights and details faithful to the Ukrainian tradition from which the story comes.
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This is a shortened version of the classic for board book form, so it's important to know that going in. The illustrations are the same, but the text has been chopped quite a bit, and in my personal opinion, lost some of its charm.
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The Creative Behind the Book
With over thirty four million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation’s foremost author illustrators of children’s books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.As a child, Jan Brett decided to be an illustrator and spent many hours reading and drawing. She says, “I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing that the imaginary place I’m drawing really exists. The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.”
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780399169816
- Publication Date
- October 30, 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Text Details
- Text set in Bembo.
- Illustration Details
- Airbrush backgrounds by Joseph Hearne.
- Page Count
- 32
- Audience
- Board
- Reading Age
- 0 - 3 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 88032198
- WorldCat Number (OCLC)
- 779057701
- Lexile® Level
- 600L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~O
- Est. ATOS® Book Level
- ~3.9
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