Jan Brett

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With over forty one million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation's foremost author illustrators of children's books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts. As a child, Jan Brett decided to be an illustrator and spent many hours reading and drawing. She says, "I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing that the imaginary place I'm drawing really exists. The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real." As a student at the Boston Museum School, she spent hours in the Museum of Fine Arts. "It was overwhelming to see the room-size landscapes and towering stone sculptures, and then moments later to refocus on delicately embroidered kimonos and ancient porcelain," she says. "I'm delighted and surprised when fragments of these beautiful images come back to me in my painting." Travel is also a constant inspiration. Together with her husband, Joe Hearne, who is a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Jan visits many different countries where she researches the architecture and costumes that appear in her work. "From cave paintings to Norwegian sleighs, to Japanese gardens, I study the traditions of the many countries I visit and use them as a starting point for my children's books." -- from janbrett.com

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Alice in a Winter Wonderland
Representative edition published 2024
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Cozy in Love
Representative edition published 2022
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The Animals' Santa
Representative edition published 2021
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Jan Brett's The Nutcracker
Representative edition published 2021
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The Night Before Christmas
Representative edition published 2020
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Cozy
Representative edition published 2020
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Gingerbread Christmas
Representative edition published 2019
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The Tale of the Tiger Slippers
Representative edition published 2019
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Jan Brett's Christmas treasury
Representative edition published 2018
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The wild Christmas reindeer
Representative edition published 2018
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The snowy nap
Representative edition published 2018
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The mermaid
Representative edition published 2017
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Jan Brett's Animal Treasury
Representative edition published 2017
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Gingerbread Friends
Representative edition published 2017
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El mitón
Representative edition published 2017
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Scary, Scary Halloween
Representative edition published 2017
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Fritz and the beautiful horses
Representative edition published 2016
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Los Renos Rebeldes de Navidad (Spanish Edition)
Representative edition published 2016
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The First Dog
Representative edition published 2015
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The Turnip
Representative edition published 2015
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Cinders
Representative edition published 2013
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The three snow bears
Representative edition published 2012
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Home for Christmas
Representative edition published 2012
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The umbrella
Representative edition published 2011
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