A single mitten is excluded by a matching pair in this endearing picture book about friendship, belonging and the pressure to match.
A warm and fuzzy story with lots of laughs, this latest picture book from Linda Bailey explores what it feels like to be excluded and included and celebrates one-of-a-kindness!.
This prompts the Little Girl to break a fundamental rule of fashion so that individual Mittens (and maybe even socks! or shoes!) can be themselves -- and everyone can belong.
Then comes their realization that matching often means leaving someone out.
When the Little Girl, who has been listening to their conversations, weighs in with a huge question (Why do you have to match?), the Mittens are shocked.
YOU don\'t match! they tell her.
Before long, however, Dotty loses her partner, and now she doesn\'t match the reunited pair of Stripes and Other Stripes, who in turn banish her to the pocket.
She doesn\'t match them, so she is banished to the dark, lonely pocket of the Little Girl who owns them.
When another mitten, Stripes, loses her partner and becomes a single mitten, they don\'t feel the need to include her.
Dotty and Other Dotty are a matching set of mittens.
For fans of The Day the Crayons Quit .
A single mitten is excluded by a matching pair in this endearing picture book about friendship, belonging and the pressure to match
