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The Mitten
by
Jan Brett
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...more
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...more
Board book, 32 pages
Published
October 5th 1989
by Putnam Juvenile
(first published January 1st 1989)
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Dec 01, 2010
Abigail
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This book is a great way to show children that sometimes we are not always right. The grandmother finally knitted the young boy a pair of mittens that he wanted after being reluctant fearing he would lose them. He gets his mittens and goes out in the snow and does exactly what grandmother has feared. While the mitten was lost in the snow several animals came to get into the warm mitten. Then the mitted exploeded into the air and the boy got his mitten back. I like the way the story was laid out...more
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Nicki's grandma agrees to knit him a pair of snow white mittens so long as he is careful not to lose them in the snow. One day, Nicki goes outside to play and leaves a mitten behind. One-by-one, woodland creatures come out of the woods and attempt to squeeze themselves into the warm, well-knit mitten. A sneeze from one of the animals sends them all exploding out of the mitten. Nicki finds the missing mitten and brings it home to show his grandma.
"The Mitten" is appropriat...more
Nicki's grandma agrees to knit him a pair of snow white mittens so long as he is careful not to lose them in the snow. One day, Nicki goes outside to play and leaves a mitten behind. One-by-one, woodland creatures come out of the woods and attempt to squeeze themselves into the warm, well-knit mitten. A sneeze from one of the animals sends them all exploding out of the mitten. Nicki finds the missing mitten and brings it home to show his grandma.
"The Mitten" is appropriat...more
Great book with great illustrations! This story is based on a Ukranian folk tale, and begins with a young boy named Nicky who asks his grandmother, Baba, to knit him a pair of snow-white mittens so that he could go out and play. Baba insists that he will easily lose them, but Nicky trots off to play in the snow anyways. Along the way, Nicky loses one of his mittens in which several animals come along to snuggle inside and get warm. A mole is the first animal to spot the mitten, and then comes a...more
Title: The Mitten Written and Illustrated by: Jan Brett Genre:Folklore Age Level: P Date: 1989
In the book, The Mitten, a little boy Nicki is given white mittens by his Baba. His Baba did not want Nicki to have snow white mittens because she knew they would be easy to lose. When Nicki sets out to play outside in the snow one mitten flies off. Nick goes in search for the mitten. A mole finds the mitten and crawls into it. Then a rabbit, badger, owl, fox and a hedge hog, a bear and then finally a m...more
In the book, The Mitten, a little boy Nicki is given white mittens by his Baba. His Baba did not want Nicki to have snow white mittens because she knew they would be easy to lose. When Nicki sets out to play outside in the snow one mitten flies off. Nick goes in search for the mitten. A mole finds the mitten and crawls into it. Then a rabbit, badger, owl, fox and a hedge hog, a bear and then finally a m...more
Nov 19, 2012
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The Mitten by Jan Brett
Grade-K-2nd grade
Genre: Folktale
GR: Level M
Main characters: Nicki, grandma, and woodland animals.
Setting: Outside in the forest on the snow
POV: Third person point of view, by a narrator
Summary: The story is about a young Ukrainian boy who asks his grandmother to knit him warm white mittens. Eventually, she finally decides to knit them for him. His grandmother warns him that if he is to lose his mittens, he will have a hard time finding them in the snow. Nicki tells grandma...more
Grade-K-2nd grade
Genre: Folktale
GR: Level M
Main characters: Nicki, grandma, and woodland animals.
Setting: Outside in the forest on the snow
POV: Third person point of view, by a narrator
Summary: The story is about a young Ukrainian boy who asks his grandmother to knit him warm white mittens. Eventually, she finally decides to knit them for him. His grandmother warns him that if he is to lose his mittens, he will have a hard time finding them in the snow. Nicki tells grandma...more
“The Mitten” by Jan Brett
Genre: Folktale
Main characters: Nicki, grandma, and woodland animals.
Setting: Outside in the forest on the snow
POV: Third person point of view, by a narrator
Summary: The story is about a young Ukrainian boy who asks his grandmother to knit him some warm white mittens, and she finally does. His grandmother warns him that if he is to lose his mittens, he will have a hard time finding them in the snow. Nicki tells grandma that he won’t lose them, but that is one of the firs...more
Genre: Folktale
Main characters: Nicki, grandma, and woodland animals.
Setting: Outside in the forest on the snow
POV: Third person point of view, by a narrator
Summary: The story is about a young Ukrainian boy who asks his grandmother to knit him some warm white mittens, and she finally does. His grandmother warns him that if he is to lose his mittens, he will have a hard time finding them in the snow. Nicki tells grandma that he won’t lose them, but that is one of the firs...more
The Mitten by Jan Brett
Grade/interest level: K-2nd grade
Guided Reading Level: M
Genre: Folktale
Main characters: Nicki, grandma, and woodland animals.
Setting: Outside in the forest on the snow
POV: Third person point of view, by a narrator
Summary: The story is about a young Ukrainian boy who asks his grandmother to knit him so warm white mittens, and she finally does. His grandmother warns him that if he is to lose his mittens, he will have a hard time finding them in the snow. Nicki tells grandma...more
This book is a classic that I loved when I was growing up and I still really enjoy reading it today. The story is about a boy named Nikki who asks his grandmother to make him snow white mittens. In the beginning, he grandmother does not want to make the mittens because she is afraid that Nikki will lose them in the snow. When the grandmother finished them, she said that every time he comes home she will make sure that he also has his mittens on. But, just like you would guess, he lost one of the...more
I walk to my school every day. Often times when I am walking I think about my lessons and class. The other day while I walked to school I was talking on the phone. When I was turned the corner to walk into my school building, I realized that because of my free hand needed to talk on the phone, I had dropped my mitten. Immediately, I started to laugh and turned around in search of my fallen mitten (it was about 7:05 am so there had not been much foot traffic on the sidewalk so I knew I'd find it)...more
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Jan 13, 2011
Candice
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This morning while walking my dog I temporarily lost one of my mittens. When I discovered it had fallen out of my pocket, I decided it would be easier to continue our walk and to look for the lost mitten on the way back. I had plenty of time to reflect. As Dude munched on frozen deer poop I thought of all the woodland creatures that inhabit Poplar Forest. Besides the deer there are foxes, squirrels, rabbits, mice, skunks, and who knows what else. I imagined one of them finding the mitten and tak...more
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I have read many folktales from around the world, but this is the first time that I have read a folktale from Ukraine. “The Mitten” is a Ukrainian folktale retold by Jan Brett and it is about how a young boy named Nicki loses his mitten in the snow and his lost mitten soon becomes a host to a great number of forest animals! “The Mitten” is easily one of the cutest and most beautiful folktales ever told for children!
Jan Brett has certainly outdone herself in this book as she beautifully writes an...more
Jan Brett has certainly outdone herself in this book as she beautifully writes an...more
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The story The Mitten is about a young boy who wanted his grandmother to make him snow-white mittens. His grandma said that he would lose it in the snow and never find it back, while the young boy did but at the end of the story he finds it back. There was something different with the mitten now. You will have to read it to find out what happened to it.
The Mitten is a longer than it is tall with a rectangle shape. Paperback is the style that I read, which means it did not have a book jacket. Ther...more
The Mitten is a longer than it is tall with a rectangle shape. Paperback is the style that I read, which means it did not have a book jacket. Ther...more
In this Ukranian folktale Nicki, a young boy, asks his grandmother Baba for snow-white mittens. She protests that he will lose them in the snow, but because he wants them so badly she complies and knits some for him. When he goes out to play, he does lose one, and it is found by a chilly mole who cosies up inside to get warm. When a rabbit happens by, he crowds into the mitten, followed by a hedgehog, an owl, a badger, a fox, and a bear. Finally a tiny mouse comes along and, perching on top of t...more
This book "The Mitten" is creative and fun story because children can get many things from a mitten in this story. Nicki's grandmother made white mittens, and she did not want that Nicki lost the mittens outside. Nicki dropped his mitten in the snow, so many animals tried to get inside of cozy mitten which were a fox, a mole, a rabbit, a hedgehog, a owl , a badger, and a bear and a mouse. Suddenly, the mitten up into the sky, and scattered the animals in all directions because of the bear's enor...more
Jan Brett drew beautiful illustrations in The Mitten. She created air brushed double spreads for each page. Her lines of rolling hills in the distance create the appearance of space and rolling meadows. The side pictures on each page create a preview of what is happening next. She doesn't include words with these, but it shows where Nicky is, and from the illustrations, you can see what he is thinking and how he is feeling. Even though a lot of each page is white due to the snow and sky, she cre...more
I absolutely adore this book! When looking through children's books at age 21 I still got extremely excited to read this book because I remember falling in love with it in second grade when our librarian read it to us. I love the way this story is written with the boards off to each side that give you a little insight into what is about to happen. The sotry embodies the spirit of winter with all the fun animals and the snow. The story is about a little boy who drops his new white mitten that he...more
A classic that is adapted from a Ukranian children's story. One of the things that I like about this story is the two mittens placed on opposite pages (at least with my copy it has them). Inside the mitten on the left it shows where the boy is looking for his lost mitten. The mitten on the right shows what animal is coming next. This would be a good way for children to use their predicting skills for literature. This book is also a bullying book, because no one is telling the next animal "no" be...more
This personal favorite is a wonderful winter time tale that will capture the attention of young children. The descriptive vocabulary and choice or words create the pictures in your mind as well as the pages. The use of the many forest creatures is accurate to real life animals that would habitat their. The pictures of these animals in the woods use foreshadowing, something that can help young readers figure out what may happen next int he story. This book is sure to make and winter day a litter...more
The wonderful Jan Brett's version of a Ukrainian fairy tale The Mitten is satisfying in so many ways. I have used it wish students of a variety of levels-as a simple and charming fairy tale to older students studying the form and learning how powerful the art of illustration is and how critical it is in the successful performance of a story.
These illustrations are magical as they tell the story of a common object in an uncommon way and reveal the magic that resides in the most ordinary of object...more
These illustrations are magical as they tell the story of a common object in an uncommon way and reveal the magic that resides in the most ordinary of object...more
Taking its source from an old Ukrainian story, this tale is told via wonderfully wintry drawings by Jan Brett, who has a knack for telling a story with various frames. Grandmother Baba knows that knitting a snow white mitten will mean it will get lost quickly once her grandson goes outside, but it allows for the adventure to ensue for the woodland animals living near their house. As each animal finds the mitten and tries to get inside for warmth, the wool expands with each accompanying load of f...more
Dec 23, 2010
Dolly
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We've read Jim Aylesworth's version of this story (The Mitten) and so when this book was picked as a December read for the Children's Books group Picture-book club, we were excited to read another version of this story. We enjoyed both of the books very much and as always, we really love Jan Brett's illustrations. The details and little hints of what's to come in the border pictures are a feast for the eyes. We read the 20th Anniversary edition, which includes an author's note at the beginning....more
Jul 25, 2011
Laura
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A little boy lost one of his mittens in the snow. A little mole found it and crawled inside. Soon a rabbit, hedgehog, owl, badger, fox and a bear joined the little mole inside the mitten. Then a tiny mouse crept into the mitten and tickled the bear’s nose. He sneezed, and all the animals flew out of the mitten. The little boy found his mitten, but it was quite stretched out. I grew up with a version by Alvin Tressalt (the blue cover). In that one, the mouse at the end is just the final straw, an...more
Jan Brett's "The Mitten" is a beautifully illustrated story of folklore. It is written for the nursery, primary reader ages 4 to 8. The story begins with a young boy playing in the snow and when leaving for home he loses one of his mittens. Since it is cold and the many animals in the forest are looking for warmth one by one each decides to make his home in the mitten. As the size of the animal inhabiting the mitten grows so does the shape of the mitten. "The Mitten" is the staple of every nurse...more
The mitten is about a boy who wanted to wear white mitten even through his grandmother told him if she would make him some he couldn't lose his mittens somewhere in the snow. Once his grandmother made him the mittens, he was so happy because he was able to have mittens to wear. He lost his mittens and one by one all the animals find the mittens, and they would try them one and they would keeping stretching and stretching. The boy learned his lesson to kept his belonging on him or near him.
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The Mitten
Folktale adapted & illustrated by Jan Brett
Published by: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Year Published: 1989
The main character of the story, Nicki, looses one of his white mittens in the snow. His grandmother, Baba, warned him this would happen before she made them for him. After he lost the mitten, all kinds of animals moved into the mitten to keep warm. The book has a very nice ending.
Reading level: K-3
Genre: Picture Book
Use: Independent Reading
Social Issues: This book promotes listening...more
Folktale adapted & illustrated by Jan Brett
Published by: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Year Published: 1989
The main character of the story, Nicki, looses one of his white mittens in the snow. His grandmother, Baba, warned him this would happen before she made them for him. After he lost the mitten, all kinds of animals moved into the mitten to keep warm. The book has a very nice ending.
Reading level: K-3
Genre: Picture Book
Use: Independent Reading
Social Issues: This book promotes listening...more
A young boy, Nicki, has lost a white mitten in the snow. Several animals, small and large, try to make a home in it. When Nicki finds the mitten, it is stretched out considerably.
Like "The Hat," "The Mitten" is classic Jan Brett. Once again, I used the big book version with a kindergarten class. After discussing sequencing of events, we also compared and contrasted both stories with respect to characters, setting, and plot. The children were easily able to do this as they had had repeated exposu...more
Like "The Hat," "The Mitten" is classic Jan Brett. Once again, I used the big book version with a kindergarten class. After discussing sequencing of events, we also compared and contrasted both stories with respect to characters, setting, and plot. The children were easily able to do this as they had had repeated exposu...more
I would recommend this book for fun and casual reading for children to enjoy.The illustrations are large and have an intriguing style, however the colors are rather muted. The story could be used to help teach the concept of sharing, or to teach about the animals that are presented in it. The pictures of the animals are very clear and detailed. Over-all the story-line is rather poor and un-attention grabbing, which is why it earned a three star-rating.
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My family used to have this book when I was little. I remember loving the illustrations and trying to guess which animal would go into "The Mitten" next. The pictures are fun to look at because a picture of which animal is going to fit into the mitten next is located on the edge of the current page. It serves as a little foreshadowing for what will happen on the following page. When I re-read the book today, I realized that I totally forgot what the actual plot of the book was about. It was real...more
This books follows the day of a little boy who loses one of his snow white mittens that his grandmother has just knitted him. With minimal text, this book is easy to read for a young child as well as easy to read to them. The pictures in this book are fascinating. They are extremely detailed and descriptive and can also help the child predict what will happen next (the animal that will appear on the next page is put on the side pannel of the current page). As the day goes on, more and more anima...more
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With over thirty three 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 reme...more
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