Reviews for The Mystery of the Missing Red Mitten

The average rating for The Mystery of the Missing Red Mitten based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-10-07 00:00:00 Sean Keeney The Missing Mitten Mystery is basically and simply a sweet little tale of a young girl and her dog trying to find her one missing mitten (mostly by retracing her steps to where she had previously been playing with her friends, but also having her muse that perhaps her mitten might equally have been absconded with by a bird or a mouse). And while there is in my opinion nothing in any manner spectacular or outrageous with regard to either Steven Kellogg's narrative or his accompanying illustrations, I certainly have found The Missing Mitten Mystery both narrationally and illustrativel fun, engaging and yes also full of what often makes winter such a delightful season especially for children (with sledding, building snow castles, making snow angels, and indeed, I certainly did not expect the missing mitten to be found where it ended up being found, and it has definitely made me smile). Now personally, I do rather think that the scenario of the little girl imagining planting and growing mittens en masse feels a bit gratuitous and tacked on (read a trifle unnecessary). However, I guess that it does kind of give Steven Kellogg the opportunity to present and feature some visually sweet and colourfully descriptive "four seasonal" illustrations, although yes, I do find the whole planting mittens episode rather forced in scope and that it does not really have all that much to do with the actual storyline of The Missing Mitten Mystery, namely with searching for and finding the little girl's lost mitten (and that it furthermore kind of makes the subsequent discovery of the mitten, at least in my opinion, seem a bit of a let-down and not all that exciting and special in and of itself anymore). Still The Missing Mitten Mystery is most certainly a delightful combination of text and images (with Steven Kellogg's bright and lively pictures also mirroring his narrative, the little girl's search for her mitten, and that it is finally found in an unexpected but as such and for the winter season really perfect place).

Review # 2 was written on 2019-10-05 00:00:00 Vernon Nikunen I loved this! It just glows with warmth, joy and good spirit. I love how we are just plopped right into the middle of the action, the story opens with the little girl declaring to her puppy, "Oscar, I lost my other mitten." The footprints behind her through the snow tells us there must have been an adventure that day, and I love how she backtracks through the snowy-now to the places she played that day, remembering what she did and imagining the fate of her mitten. It's so very child-like and joyous and the sunset scenes with the snow truly glow and are beautiful. I love the illustration when she imagines an eagle took her mitten to keep the baby eagle's head warm -- I've never before seen an eagle look that loving and maternal ;-) I think my favorite is her imagining the mitten growing a mitten-tree and then giving all the mittens as gifts. I love including the elderly neighbor and, while perhaps the answer of what happened to the missing mitten might be deemed by some to be a bit saccharine, I thought it was perfect.