Mittens By Newberry, Clare Turlay

Title: Mittens
Author: Newberry, Clare Turlay
Illustration: Clare Turlay Newberry
Publisher: Smithmark

Comments
CIP Info Richard achieves his lifelong desire to have a kitten, only to have it become lost. Precious. I feel in love with Newberry’s work a few years ago when I read April’s Kitten. At the time I didn’t have time to research further. I was an antique mall last week and picked up a reproduction in hardcover for only $5.50. I love this book. The space around the illustrations is great, that story is simple. It is a story from a simpler time. Richard finally talks his mother in to getting him a kitten. It has mitten feet (6 toes) so naturally they call it Mittens. One day Mittens gets out. They put an ad in the paper. All day long people stop by with cats that are not Mittens. At the end of the book, they find Mittens up in a tree. It is a simple story, but written so well you can really enjoy it, with anyone at anytime.