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Jan Brett


Born
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December 01, 1949

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With over thirty three 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."
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April 2018 Hedge a gram



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Sketch for 2019 Tiger Book


Happy April,


This is my April hedge-a-gram, the time I take every month to relay my book making activities.   The Tiger story I have had in my mind for 5 years has finally metamorphosized into a dummy. In book terms, a dummy is 32 pages of full color thumbnail sketches made into a small coverless book. Although everyone doesn’t actually make signatures (groups of 4 pages)

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Average rating: 4.27 · 302,839 ratings · 10,321 reviews · 111 distinct works • Similar authors
The Mitten
4.28 avg rating — 94,295 ratings — published 1989 — 63 editions
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4.21 avg rating — 8,025 ratings — published 1999 — 15 editions
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The Wild Christmas Reindeer
4.13 avg rating — 6,897 ratings — published 1990 — 19 editions
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Town Mouse, Country Mouse
4.12 avg rating — 4,736 ratings — published 1994 — 19 editions
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Beauty and the Beast
4.24 avg rating — 4,207 ratings — published 1989 — 22 editions
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The Twelve Days of Christmas
4.15 avg rating — 3,781 ratings — published 1986 — 23 editions
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Trouble with Trolls
4.16 avg rating — 3,575 ratings — published 1992 — 12 editions
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The Three Snow Bears
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