These animal interactions are based on various telling and my personal preference. The rabbit happily accepts and bounces in after the mouse and frog make room.Īs the order and number of animals change with every variation, so do the animals’ responses to each new animal. The hoppity frog recognizes the rabbit and eagerly invites the rabbit to come in. Startled, the two look outside and see the bouncing rabbit. Just as the little mouse and the hoppity frog begin falling asleep in the comfortable mitten, they hear a light, boom boom. The frog happily hops into the mitten, finding a nice warm spot to curl upon. The frog seems very cold, and the mouse didn’t mind the frog much, so she lets him stay with her in the mitten. She peaks her head out, and she sees the hoppity frog.

Not long after, she hears a ribbit-ribbit. She thinks about how perfectly warm the mitten is and how it will make a nice place to sleep.

She excitedly darts into the mitten and warms herself up since night was falling and it was getting so cold. We often associate mittens with children and gloves with adults! Page spread from Jan Brett’s “The Mitten” with a detailed border and our protagonist before he loses his beloved glove!Ī little while later, a little mouse notices the bright red mitten sitting out in the snow. Mitten! I didn’t actually know the difference between the two until recently! A glove has a separate compartment for every finger and thumb, whereas a mitten just covers the entire hand. Like losing a sock, I think losing a glove is a time-honoured tradition.

Isn’t it just the worst when you lose one glove? Unfortunately, the boy forgets to put them back on, and one of the red mittens falls out of his pocket. This boy is similar as he quickly shoves the mittens into his pocket, so he can collect the firewood.

They can be warm, but you really need gloves when working outside. I do not know about you, but I find it hard to work with mittens. Bundling himself up for the cold trek, he put on his mittens and went out with his sleigh. One snowy winter day, his mother told him to go into the woods to collect firewood. There once was a young boy with bright, red mittens. If you haven’t listened to the story yet, be sure to listen here or download it wherever you listen to your podcasts! Let us know what you think in the comments or reviews. Today, we have a famous folktale from Ukraine that some of our travellers might have heard already! The story of the mitten has been translated from Ukrainian into many different languages and retold in children’s books! One popular one from our childhood was Jan Brett’s version! We have used many different versions of “The Mitten” from Barbara Suwyn, Irina Zheleznova, Svitlana Yakovenko, Pavlo Chubynsky (1878) and Ivan Rudchenko (1870).

The mitten story