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Jan Brett

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born
December 01, 1949 in The United States

gender
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genre
Children's Books


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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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Books by Jan Brett

Average rating: 4.17 · 47601 ratings · 1746 reviews · 62 distinct works
The Mitten
4.17 of 5 stars 417 avg rating — 16066 ratings — published 1989 — 17 editions
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The Hat
4.18 of 5 stars 418 avg rating — 3574 ratings — published 1997 — 13 editions
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Gingerbread Baby
4.07 of 5 stars 407 avg rating — 1300 ratings — 7 editions
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The Wild Christmas Reindeer
4.06 of 5 stars 406 avg rating — 1173 ratings — published 1990 — 8 editions
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Town Mouse, Country Mouse
3.93 of 5 stars 393 avg rating — 884 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions
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Trouble with Trolls
4.08 of 5 stars 408 avg rating — 621 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions
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Beauty and the Beast
4.18 of 5 stars 418 avg rating — 526 ratings — 7 editions
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The Three Snow Bears
3.95 of 5 stars 395 avg rating — 533 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
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Hedgie's Surprise
4.02 of 5 stars 402 avg rating — 386 ratings — 6 editions
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4.04 of 5 stars 404 avg rating — 379 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions
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