What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
SOLVED: Children's/YA
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SOLVED. Rare version of The Mitten. [s]
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I found it. A Houghton Mifflin Reader titled Signposts.
Hey, glad you found it. Who was the author and illustrator of The Mitten story?
It was Alvin Tresselt, as I thought, though the text had a few more differences than I remembered. The artist was Ed Emberley.
Cool, thanks for letting us know!
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Where my book differs is in the art, which in my book is very distinct. The animals look like they're made up of shapes or crystals, and they kind of fill up the page. I remember everything being in 2-D without any depth. The animals enter the page from the left and the mitten appears on the right with the animals stacked one on top of the other (in 2-D, so they literally appear as if they're laying one on top of the other) with the mitten ever increasing in height (width but since it's on its side). I remember the bear being blue and putting its paws on either side of the mitten's opening before squeezing into the mitten.
I remember it being a stand alone book, but as I can't remember the cover, I can't be absolutely certain it wasn't in a book with a couple of other stories. We got a lot of our books from Parents' Magazine Press and through the Weekly Readers Children's Book Club, but using that in search engines hasn't produced anything yet.