![]() Baba is puzzled about how it has become so stretched out (Brett, 1989). Nicki the finds his mitten and takes it home. ![]() He sneezes, thereby dislodging all of the mitten's inhabitants all at once. What happens next seemingly borrows from a National Geographic special as a mole takes refuge in the lost mitten, followed by a rabbit, then a hedgehog, an owl, a badger, a fox, a bear and finally a mouse. The typical boy, Nicki promptly loses the mitten in the snow. Baba warns Nicki that a white mitten will be harder to find if he loses it in the snow. In the Mitten, a Ukrainian boy named Nicki wants his grandmother Baba to knit some white mittens for him. ![]() She continues in this vein in 1989 in the Mitten. Jan Brett is the illustrator of well-known folktales, fairy tales, and poems, These include the Owl and the Pussycat, by Edward Lear and Goldilocks and the Three Bears. ![]()
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