Soon more animals walked passed by asking to come in and it includes, a boar, a wolf, a fox, and a rabbit. A while later, a frog hopped over and ask if he can join her and she welcome him. A mouse was walking by sees the mitten and walk inside to keep herself warm. When he was done collecting firewoods, he walks back to his grandma’s house and on his way one of his mittens dropped out from his coat pocket. The Mitten written by Alvin Tresselt and illustrated by Yaroslava is a 40 pages Ukrainian folktale picture book about a young boy who went to the woods on the coldest day to help his grandma to gather firewoods. It's just SO similar to the other, more well-known version (or, I should say, Brett's version is so similar to this one!) that I don't see the point in keeping both editions. They probably do have a copy of Brett's edition, but this would be a good thing for them to compare and contrast - and really, it stands on its own as a lovely book. I'm going to donate this book to my niece's school.

Some people prefer the lack of outright intimidation in this book. In this edition, the animals speak politely to each other and act generally like humans.

and the prey animals move over for the predators only because they're intimidated by the talons, claws, and teeth (this detail is skipped in the board book version of Brett's book). They don't wear clothes, and they don't explicitly talk to each other.

Jan Brett has the animals looking and acting like animals. (In this case, that one color is turquoise, as you can see on the cover.) I like the detail more, but there's a real charm in the simpler pictures of this edition. and like many books of that time period, it alternates between full-color spreads and one-color spreads. In contrast to Jan Brett's signature style of very intricate pictures, the artwork in this book is very simple. When one teeny animal tries to be the last to just squeeeeeze in (in this version, a cricket), that proves too much for the old mitten and it bursts all over the place. A boy loses his mitten in the woods, a series of progressively larger animals climb in, culminating in a bear. If you can get your hands on both, do so - keep one for yourself and donate the other to a local school! However, as the comments here show, many people prefer this version, which predates Brett's version by quite a while. And unless your home library is enormous, you probably don't need both books. Now, let me say from the start that, having read Jan Brett's version first, I prefer it.

Jan brett reading the mitten