![]() Just at the point where Nicki approaches, searching for his lost mitten, the mouse causes the bear to sneeze the mitten and all its occupants go flying the boy catches sight of the airborne mitten and retrieves it. A mole is the first to discover the mitten lying on the snow and crawls inside, followed by a snowshoe rabbit, a hedgehog, an owl, a badger, a fox, a bear and, finally, a mouse.Įach time the inhabitants protest that there's not enough room for the newcomer, but to no avail and grandmother's skillful knitting holds fast as the mitten stretches beyond belief. ![]() Grandmothers, however, are usually right and it isn't long before we notice, although he does not, that he has dropped a mitten. ![]() In spite of her warnings that he will lose them and that they will be hard to find in the snow, he insists and she finally does so. This time it's a boy, Nicki, who begs his grandmother, Baba, to knit him a pair of white mittens. Jan Brett has put her own spin on the familiar folk theme of a shelter which stretches to accommodate each new occupant. ![]() You may know the earlier version of the same basic story by Alvin Tresselt (see below). ![]()
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