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Sunday, March 25, 2012

The Mitten

Book Title: The Mitten

Author(s): Jim Aylesworth

Illustrator/Photographer/Artist: Barbara McClintock

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Copyright Date: 2009

Genre: Contemporary realistic fiction

Brief Annotation: Grandmother knits her grandson a pair of great big warm woolen mittens every year before winter. When he loses one of them in the snow, several forest animals use it as their home for the night to keep warm! It's so toasty that, one by one, a bear, a fox, a rabbit, a squirrel, and a mouse all squeeze in until......POP! When the boy finds the shredded mitten the next day he sets out to get some more to share.

Your Rating (1-5) and why: 4--This was a cute book, and had a lot of great opportunity for interactive read-alouds. The characters that squeeze into the mitten have the same dialogue whenever a new character appears and asks to share the warmth, so kids could enjoy the predictability of the text and the eventual sharing and hospitality.

Readers who will like this book: Kids that will enjoy this book are animal lovers! There are great illustrations and doing the voices/noises of each animal would be a fun way to read this book together.
Question to ask about this book before a read aloud: What do we wear when it's cold outside? Have you ever thought about what animals wear? What can they do to stay warm?
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