Jan Brett The Mitten Bulletin Board

Read my full disclosure policy . Books by Jan Brett have been huge favorites in our house, especially her story The Mitten. The illustrations are simply amazing, and there are many activities that can be done to encourage learning as we read: sequencing, animal habitats, and so much more!

Each of our children has enjoyed The Mitten – whether a board books, a paperpack, or hardcover. Our copies have been so well-loved that we’ve purchased multiple copies. And I love it so much that it’s earned a permanent spot on our bookshelves – to read when we have kids visiting or the mood strikes.

The Mitten is a great winter-time story for preschoolers and their older siblings. In the story, a young boy named Nicki wants his Baba to make him some mittens that are white as snow.

Guess and see how many mittens away the office, bathroom, etc.are from your room. For a mitten snack you can have each child bring in a mitten. Supply a box of animal crackers, tell the students math problems like put in 2 tigers and 1 elephant, how many animals are in your mitten? You could also use pita bread halves to be an edible mitten.

With over thirty three million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation’s foremost author illustrators of children’s books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up.

Jan Brett. With over thirty three million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation’s foremost author illustrators of children’s books.

Jan Brett (b.1949) was deeply interested in illustration from a young age. Recollecting her childhood, she says, “I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing that the imaginary place I’m drawing really exists.”

Jan Brett. With over thirty three million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation’s foremost author illustrators of children’s books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.

The Mitten is a Ukrainian folktale retold by Jan Brett. It’s about a young boy named Nicki, who loses his mitten in the snow and his lost mitten becomes a host to a lot of different forest animals! I love all the animals, the little boy, and his grandma an 5 Beautifully Perfect ★’s. Oh, I LOVE The Mitten book.

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