The Missing Mitten Mystery

by Steven Kellogg, Steven Kellogg (Illustrator)

Overview

Annie and her dog, Oscar, have had a busy day playing in the snow. Somehow Annie's red mitten has disappeared in all the fun. They look high and low. . . . It's not on the sledding hill, and it's not by the snow castles. Maybe an eagle carried it off to keep its baby's head warm. Or maybe a mouse is using it as a sleeping bag. When the sun goes down, Annie and Oscar have to give up their search and go inside. But when Annie looks out the window, something red catches her eye. . . .

With entirely new full-color illustrations, this beautiful version of the beloved picture book The Mystery of the Missing Red Mitten retains all the charm of the original.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780142301920
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	09/23/2002
Series:	Picture Puffin Series
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	271,319
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.15(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Steven Kellogg is a beloved author and illustrator who has published more than 100 picture books, including the classics The Mysterious Tadpole, Can I Keep Him?, The Island of the Skog, and Is Your Mama a Llama?, and Pinkerton, Behave!, which was on Horn Book's and Booklist’s Best of the Year lists and led to four sequels. Kellogg is a winner of the Regina Medal for his lifetime contribution to children’s literature. His books have received numerous accolades, such as being named Reading Rainbow featured selections and winning the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Irma Simonton Black Award, the IRA-CBC Children’s Choice Award, and the Parents’ Choice Award.

Editorial Reviews

Kellogg revisits the story told in his 1974 The Mystery of the Missing Red Mitten, about a girl who imagines the most exciting locations for her lost mitten, this time with full-color illustrations. Ages 4-8. (Sept.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

Kellogg (Give the Dog a Bone, see above, etc.) remakes his Mystery of the Missing Red Mitten (1974) into a larger, longer, and more colorful ramble through snowcovered landscapes. Suddenly aware that she's short a mitten after a long day of play, Annie sets off on a frantic hunt. Her panic gives way to joie de vivre, though, as she finds articles of clothing left in the snow by her playmates, builds fantasies about where her mitten might have gotten to, and thinks about planting a mitten tree, so she'll always have mittens to give away. In the wideangle illustrations, a low winter sun sheds buttery light over rolling hills, snowdrifts, the wandering child, and her seriouslooking dog. Any reader who has ever worried about getting in trouble for losing something will be drawn into Annie's search—which ends joyfully, after a brief rain shower washes her snowman's outer layer away to expose the red "heart" within. The plot and pictures have undergone considerable change, but this is still suffused with Kellogg's characteristic warmth and charm and all the better for being easier to read to a group. (Picture book. 57)

Kirkus Reviews