The Mitten: A Classic Pop-Up Folktale

by Jessica Southwick, Pippa Curnick (Illustrator), Yevgeniya Yeretskaya

A boy's lost mitten is discovered by a group of curious woodland animals in this sweet retelling of the classic Ukranian folk tale. Seven spreads of charming illustrations feature interactive pull tabs and wheels - all within a magical pop-up landscape constructed by the award-winning paper engineer behind such classics as Snowflakes and The Snow Queen.

Genres: Childrens

7 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2014

Reviews

[Lorraine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely story and beautiful color illustrations, The Mitten by Jessica Southwick, illustrated by Pippa Cutnick, and paper-engineered by Yevgeniya Yeretskaya is a retelling of “the classic Ukrainian folk tale.” These illustrations have interactive pull tabs and wheels and are found among darling pop-ups of magical landscape drawings produced by an award-winning paper-engineer. Beautifully done!

[Kris Dersch · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute and well illustrated with good interaction on the pop-ups. A little wordy. Sadly it suffers in comparison to Jan Brett.

[Franci · Rating 3 out of 5]

#144 of 2020

#11 of 2020 Christmas / Holiday Reads

[Ju Hae · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a great book to learn about Ukranian culture and it was a very fun book to read.

[supityob · Rating 5 out of 5]

Class dojo homework .

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

The pop ups and interactive parts of this book are generally good but the last page has so much text it would have been much better to add two pages and break it up.

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is really fun. The flaps and wheels and pop ups are full of ingenuity, variety, and surprises.