One by one, woodland animals find it and crawl in first, a curious mole, then a rabbit, a badger and others, each one larger than the last. When Nicki drops his white mitten in the snow, he goes on without realizing that it is missing. Jan Brett’s beautiful retelling has been a family favorite for over 25 years. There are 5 main differences between Sova Books version of “ The Mitten” and the classic versions of the fairy tale recorded by Pavlo Chubynsky (1878) and Ivan Rudchenko (1870).In this bestselling modern classic, a young boy’s lost mitten leads to a charming snowy adventure. Then, one by one, various animals inside it with an intention to live there. Most of the versions of this fairy tale have a common storyline (the ending usually differs). Sova Books published its version of “ The Mitten” in 2018, with the original illustrations by Svitlana Soldatova.
At least four adaptations have been published in English.
They include German, English and Japanese. “ The Mitten” has been translated into a number of languages. In 2001 the Ukrainian government released a stamp featuring “The Mitten” characters. This tale is more popular than some other Ukrainian fairy tales. Let’s briefly look at a Ukrainian folk tale “ The Mitten”. Obviously, we are talking about the times before it became popular among ethnographers to record the folklore materials, before publishers decided that it would be worthwhile to spare some costly paper to publish the tales and in the days before the times of smart-phones and all the other wonderful recording technology. If their memory betrayed them they would make up their own ending and so on. So when later retelling that tale to others they would add a detail or two of their own. Once upon a time, those listening to a folk tale did not have it as their primary goal to remember the tale by heart. Fairy tale lovers know that one fairy tale can have many versions.
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