Too Many Mittens Author:Florence and Louis Slobodkin Set in snowy Michigan, this is a delightful children's story, especially appropriate for use with preschoolers during winter. In the story, Grandmother comes to care for twins while their parents are away on a trip. The entire town becomes involved when word gets out that a twin has lost a mitten. The community appears, one by one, at the door o... more »f the twins' home, offering lost mittens they have found. Soon the 'lost mittens', none of which belong to the twins, overwhelm the household. When the twin's mitten is finally found (at home all along), a "Lost Mitten Line" is established in the back yard. An announcement is made that anyone in town who has lost a mitten may come to the twins' house to look for it on the "Lost Mitten Line".« less