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  <name><![CDATA[Jan Brett]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[ 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, &quot;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.&quot;      As a student at the Boston Museum School, she spent hours in the Museum of Fine Arts. &quot;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,&quot; she says. &quot;I'm delighted and surprised when fragments of these beautiful images come back to me in my painting.&quot; 
      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. &quot;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.&quot; 
--from www.janbrett.com]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>    <born_at>12/01/1949</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Mitten]]></title>
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  <average_rating>4.11</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1396</ratings_count>
  <published>1989</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Hat]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jan Brett]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.08</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>335</ratings_count>
  <published>1997</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Gingerbread Baby]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jan Brett]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.02</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>333</ratings_count>
  <published>1999</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Town Mouse, Country Mouse]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jan Brett]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.84</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>249</ratings_count>
  <published>1994</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Trouble with Trolls]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jan Brett]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.03</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>223</ratings_count>
  <published>1992</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Wild Christmas Reindeer]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jan Brett]]></name>
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  <ratings_count>192</ratings_count>
  <published>1990</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Three Snow Bears]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jan Brett]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.96</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>178</ratings_count>
  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Umbrella]]></title>
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  <average_rating>3.90</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>164</ratings_count>
  <published>2004</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Hedgie's Surprise]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jan Brett]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.98</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>152</ratings_count>
  <published>2000</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Annie and the Wild Animals]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jan Brett]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.99</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>142</ratings_count>
  <published>1985</published>  
  
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