Too Many Mittens / A Good Place to Hide / The Little Mermaid Who Could Not Sing

About the book

From Caldecott Medal-winning artist and storyteller Louis Slobodkin and his wife, poet and author Florence Slobodkin, comes this beautifully illustrated single-volume edition of three classic children's tales.A wintertime tale of lost and found, Too Many Mittens finds the twins Ned and Donny in Grandma's care while Mother and Father are off on a trip. Word gets around when Donny loses a mitten, and soon everyone—teacher, postman, milkman, grocer—is finding lost mittens and delivering them to the twins' house, until Grandma has a great idea.In A Good Place to Hide, Susan wants to get away from her persistent brothers, who are determined to show her the spider they've trapped in a jar. But everywhere she goes, from the tool shed to Rover's doghouse, someone finds her—until she finds a secret place where she finally can be alone.Everyone knows that mermaids have long golden hair and sweet singing voices—except when they don't! In The Little Mermaid Who Could Not Sing, red-haired Cynthia can swim and ride seahorses but she cannot sing a note. Cynthia's terribly discouraged until she discovers that she has a hidden talent of her very own. www.doverpublications.com