This book is also available in Spanish, as El mitón. Jan Brett is also the creator of such wintery classics as The Hat, The Snowy Nap, Three Snowy Bears, The Animal's Santa, and The Night Before Christmas. Have students take out their story focus books. In her distinctive style, Jan Brett brings the animals to life with warmth and humor, and her illustrations are full of visual delights and details faithful to the Ukrainian tradition from which the story comes. Sequence the animals on the sequencing anchor chart (included in this unit).

As the story of the animals in the mitten unfolds, the reader can see Nicki in the borders of each page, walking through the woods unaware of what is going on. Finally, a big brown bear is followed in by a tiny brown mouse and what happens next makes for a wonderfully funny climax. One by one, woodland animals find it and crawl in first, a curious mole, then a rabbit, a badger and others, each one larger than the last. Also, during this sharing of the story, I make reference to some form of debris each animal brings inside the mitten (see notes below). In her distinctive style, Jan Brett brings the animals to life with warmth and humor, and her illustrations are full of visual delights and details faithful to the Ukrainian tradition from which the story comes. When Nicki drops his white mitten in the snow, he goes on without realizing that it is missing. As the story of the animals in the mitten unfolds, the reader can see Nicki's snowy outing in the borders of each page. Jan Brett's beautiful retelling makes a perfect holiday gift. Click on each animal to display the full sized mask artwork. These files are quite large and download slowly, but I hope that you'll be pleased by the quality. This is a great project to use with my book The Mitten. I will fold the picture back and see if the students can read the word, find the animals in the story, and then flip out the picture to check.

In this bestselling modern classic, a young boy's lost mitten leads to a charming snowy adventure. You can print these masks and use them for a Mitten play. Tags: Animals from The Mitten by Jan Brett mole rabbit hedgehog owl badger fox bear Mouse Here are picture cards for the animals in the story, The Mitten.

The mitten story animals