THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING RED MITTEN

by Stephen Kellogg ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 15, 1974

Annie's remaining red mitten and the one in her pictured daydreams about what might have become of the other make up the only bits of color in these nicely contained line drawings as the little girl searches through the snow with her shaggy dog Oscar for the fifth mitten she has lost this winter. Shortly after she imagines planting the mitten she has (""Maybe in the spring a mitten tree would grow. In the fall I'd pick the ripe mittens. And on Christmas I'd give mittens to my family and my friends"") Annie's snowman begins to melt, and what looks like the snowman's red heart turns out to be -- sure enough -- the missing mitten. Kellogg's visual asides are fewer and subtler here than usual, his ebullient imagination trimmed to a perfect fit for the undersized pages and small scale pursuit.

Pub Date: April 15, 1974

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Dial

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1974

Categories: CHILDREN'S