The mole and rabbit are “bumped and jostled” but don’t think it’s worth it to argue with a spiny hedgehog, so they make room and let him in. Soon, after a long day of looking for food underneath wet leaves and snow, a hedgehog stops, deciding to warm himself inside the mitten. At first, the mole thinks there isn’t enough room for them both, but when the rabbit enters, the mole happily scoots aside to let him in. The rabbit wiggles into the mitten, feet first. Shortly after, a snowshoe rabbit, stopping to admire his winter coat, spots the mitten on the ground. Feeling fit and snug, the mole decides to stay inside the mitten. Soon, a mole burrows inside the mitten looking for shelter after a long day of tunneling through the snow. While climbing a tree, Nicki accidentally drops one of his white mittens, but he doesn’t notice that it is missing. Baba tells Nicki before he leaves the house that when he returns, she will first check to make sure he is all right, and then check to see if he still has his white mittens with him. Nevertheless, Nicki insists on having snow-white gloves, and Baba finally agrees to knit them for him. Nicki’s grandmother, Baba, does not want to knit a pair of white mittens for Nicki because it will be very difficult to find the mittens if they are dropped in the snow. Seven-year-old Nicki expresses his desire for a pair of white wool mittens. Narrated in the omniscient third person, the story begins during the snowy wintertime. In 1996, The Mitten was released as a board book. The Mitten has been called “a charming lap book to be pored over again and again” by School Library Journal. These include a mole, rabbit, hedgehog, owl, badger, bear, and mouse, all of which begin to peacefully cohabitate inside the mitten. As Nicki wanders in the snow unaware of his loss, woodland animals take residence inside the mitten one at a time.
The story follows seven-year-old Nicki, who accidentally loses one of his white wool mittens in the snow. A New York Times bestselling children’s book, The Mitten: A Ukrainian Folktale (1989), written and illustrated by American author Jan Brett, is based on an old Ukrainian folktale.
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