The Missing Mitten Mystery
Written and Illustrated by Steven Kellogg
(Scholastic Inc., 2000)
A mystery is just what one needs for these short, dreary days.
In The Missing Mitten Mystery, Annie has lost her fifth mitten of the winter. She is in big trouble.
Thinking for herself, Annie chooses to go with her dog, Oscar, and retrace her footsteps and activities to try and locate the missing mitten. That is a great strategy!
Annie finds lots of lost things, but not her own mitten. Readers will have to look closely at the illustrations as they read the short amount of text in The Missing Mitten Mystery. The ending is a delightful surprise.
KID KANDY:
This is a great time for hide-and-seek. Except the hider needs to hide a mitten for the seeker to find. Start easy by leaving a bit of mitten peeking from its hiding place. Make it harder each turn by hiding more of the mitten. Players can always add clues by saying, "Warmer, warmer, hot, colder, cold, freezing cold..." depending on how close the seeker is to the hidden mitten.
Ready or not, here I come!
KID KANDY is a book extension feature for kids and their families. If a child has a fun activity to do after reading a book (or before reading a book), the ideas and information in the book are more likely to stick. We know that the more kids love books, the more they read. And the more they read, the more they internalize things like story structure, character development, language, conflict, and creativity. And the love of both reading and exploring is encouraged to grow deep and rich in the life of kids.
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