Read it with your little ones and then try the retelling and threading craft described below. This is a great book to read with preschoolers and other young kids. This gave me an idea for a fun way to have her retell the story.After our most recent reading of the book as part of our Advent Picture Book Tree, we threaded a felt mitten and used our Toob animals to retell the story. Sometimes my daughter likes to just look through the pictures and retell the story in her own words. A neat feature of the illustrations is that Jan Brett placed a clue for what will happen next in the margin of each page. I'll let you read the book for yourself to find out how Nikki gets his mitten back.The illustrations in this book are stunning with their intricate details. It is stretched and stretched, but Baba's good knitting holds fast even when the big brown bear barges in. The story goes on to describe how one animal after another decides to snuggle into the warm woolen mitten. It tells the story of a boy, Nikki, who loses his newly made white mitten in the snow, just as his grandma, Baba, predicted he would. This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.One of our favorite winter picture books is The Mitten by Jan Brett.
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