Description

A single mitten is excluded by a matching pair in this endearing picture book about friendship, belonging and the pressure to match. For fans of The Day the Crayons Quit. Dotty and Other Dotty are a matching set of mittens. When another mitten, Stripes, loses her partner and becomes a single mitten, they don t feel the need to include her. She doesn t match them, so she is banished to the dark, lonely pocket of the Little Girl who owns them. 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. YOU don t match! they tell her. 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. Then comes their realization that matching often means leaving someone out. 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. 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!