I assumed this was the Jan Brett (1989) version but she said no so this made me curious to read this old tale and to seek out different copies. Recently my friend from Kinderbookswitheverything talked about The Mitten and the way she had several versions in her school library but there was one she especially liked. One review called this a "progression tale." In the version by Alvin Tresselt, pictured above, the mitten disintegrates after the arrival of the final creature whereas in Jan Brett's version the boy finds the mitten and we see his grandmother standing puzzled as she compares its size against the original. In the version by Alvin Tresselt the mitten is taken over by a tiny mouse, a green frog, an owl, a rabbit, a fox, a wolf, a wild boar, a bear and finally a tiny cricket. In the Jan Brett version the animals include a snowshoe rabbit, a mole, a hedgehog, an owl, a badger, a fox, a giant brown bear and a tiny meadow mouse. The mitten stretches and stretches to accommodate animals which are diverse in size and temperament. A series of animals discover the warm mitten and each one climbs inside. A young boy (or in some versions an old man) drops his mitten in the snow.
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