![]() ![]() Nevertheless, Nicki insists on having snow-white gloves, and Baba finally agrees to knit them for him. Nicki’s grandmother, Baba, does not want to knit a pair of white mittens for Nicki because it will be very difficult to find the mittens if they are dropped in the snow. Seven-year-old Nicki expresses his desire for a pair of white wool mittens. Narrated in the omniscient third person, the story begins during the snowy wintertime. In 1996, The Mitten was released as a board book. The Mitten has been called “a charming lap book to be pored over again and again” by School Library Journal. These include a mole, rabbit, hedgehog, owl, badger, bear, and mouse, all of which begin to peacefully cohabitate inside the mitten. As Nicki wanders in the snow unaware of his loss, woodland animals take residence inside the mitten one at a time. The story follows seven-year-old Nicki, who accidentally loses one of his white wool mittens in the snow. ![]() A New York Times bestselling children’s book, The Mitten: A Ukrainian Folktale (1989), written and illustrated by American author Jan Brett, is based on an old Ukrainian folktale. ![]()
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