A Mountain of Mittens

This book was a little too close to home for my first graders, and we all laughed hysterically as we read the book together. It tied in perfectly with our "Mitten" unit, and the students made the connection that we could write our own book just like it. Too funny... very cute. There is repeated text in the story, which they happily chanted along with me. I got requests to read it again, so it will be added to my repertoire to read each winter. Highly recommend for ages 5-7.

Cute and funny story. My little preschoolers enjoyed it and it fit right in with the winter/mitten theme. Definitely a story to be read with some exaggerated feeling to capture their attention. You do not have to live in an area with snow to enjoy this, kids forget things everywhere.

Plourde, Lynn, A Mountain of Mittens, illustrated by Mitch Vane, Charlesbridge, 2007Perhaps only children who experience snow can fully appreciate this story about lost mittens, yet all can enjoy the humor expressed in text and illustrations and the rhyming refrain, "Mittens, Mittens. My, oh, my! A Mountain of mittens piled up high" that makes this a sure story time hit. Every day, Molly's parents remind her, "Don't forget your mittens at school" and everyday she and other children do. One day, Mrs. Folly the principal calls an emergency assembly when school classes end, and announces, "No one, I repeat no one, will be allowed to leave school today until you all reclaim your mittens from the lost-and-found pile." Due to all the inventive ways that parents had tried to secure mittens to their children, the pile of children become duct-taped to the pile of mittens; now the teachers swing into action, when Mrs. Folly says, "Holy mittens! ...We can't have our students stuck at school overnight." As you may already have guessed, they get stuck in the pile too. Molly's worried parents call 911, and soon police, firemen, and ambulance workers join some parents who are rushing to the school. The ending is maybe predictable but also highly amusing. The brightly colored humorous and expressive cartoon style illustrations are created using watercolor paints and dip pen and India ink on bright white watercolor paper and stand out clearly enough for a close-up audience. Don't miss this delightful book that will appeal to children in preschool through third grade.

A humorous and exaggerated tale about the lengths parents go to help their children keep their mittens. and the chaos that ensues when parents go to the most extreme measures.#funny #mittens #PBWritten by Lynn Plourde, illustrated by Mitch Vane and published by Charlesbridge.

If you live in a cold environment then this book is for you and your family! The story is about a girl who looses her mittens and this is an all too common problem here in the Midwest. Her parents do all sorts of crazy things to ensure their daughter doesn't loose her mittens again but, she does. This book will have you and your family laughing out loud!