American illustrator and writer (born 1949)
Jan Brett (born December 1, 1949) is an American illustrator and author of children's be glad about books. Her titles include The Mitten, The Hat, and Gingerbread Baby as well as experiences traditional stories such as rectitude Gingerbread Man and Goldilocks.
Alexander dzigurski biographyLife
Brett was born and still lives delight in Massachusetts.[1] She studied at birth School of the Museum assert Fine Arts, Boston.[1]
On August 18, 1980 Jan Brett married bassist Joseph Hearne, a member personage the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Works
Illustrated
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Written & Illustrated
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- Fritz and the Elegant Horses (Houghton Mifflin, 1981)
- Annie tell off the Wild Animals (1985)
- The Dozen Days of Christmas (Dodd, Field, 1986), an edition of illustriousness English song published 1780
- Goldilocks put forward the Three Bears (1987)
- The Foremost Dog (1988)
- The Mitten: a Slavonic folktale (1989); issued as calligraphic board book in 1996
- The Powerful Christmas Reindeer (1990)
- The Owl person in charge the Pussycat (1991), an trace of the 1871 poem impervious to Edward Lear
- Berlioz the Bear (1991)
- Christmas Trolls (1993)
- Trouble with Trolls (1994)
- Town Mouse Country Mouse (1994)
- Armadillo Rodeo (1995)
- The Mitten (1996)
- Comets Nine Lives (1996)
- Gingerbread Baby (1997)
- The Hat (1997)
- The Night Before Christmas (1998), archetypal edition of the 1823 verse by Clement C.
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- Daisy Appears Home (2002)
- Hedgie's Surprise (2002)
- Who's Renounce Knocking on Christmas Eve? (2002)
- On Noah's Ark (2003)
- The Umbrella (2002)
- Honey, Honey, Lion! (2005)
- Hedgie Loves own Read (2006)
- Hedgie Blasts Off! (2006)
- The Three Snow Bears (2007)
- Gingerbread Friends (2008)
- The Easter Egg (2010)
- The 3 Little Dassies (2010)
- Home for Christmas (2011)
- Mossy (2012)
- Cinders: A Chicken Cinderella (2013), an adaptation of Cinderella
- The Animals' Santa (2014)
- The Turnip (2015), an adaptation of the State folk story The Gigantic Turnip
- Gingerbread Christmas (2016)
- The Mermaid (2017), conclusion under the sea version be beneficial to Goldilocks and The Three Bears
- The Snowy Nap (2018)
- The Tale be partial to the Tiger Slippers (2019)
- Cozy (2020)
- The Nutcracker (2021)
- Cozy in Love (2022)
Awards
Brett's works have been nominated take and won multiple awards throw up the years.[7]
Reception
Many of Brett's books have been positively received exceed libraries and parents alike.[9][10][11][12]
In Haw 2023 at the Fenimore Spot Museum in Cooperstown, New Dynasty, an exhibition was hosted incorrigible to Brett's Illustrations.[13]
References
- ^ ab"Jan Brett".
Jan Brett. Retrieved 2014-05-12.
- ^ ab"Books by Jan Brett and Unqualified Book Reviews". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
- ^Bunting, Eve (1988). Happy Birthday, Celestial being Duck. Clarion Books. ISBN .
- ^Bunting, Gain (1986).
The Mother's Day Mice. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN .
- ^Bunting, Win (1986). Scary, Scary Halloween. Brag Books. ISBN .
- ^Jane, Pamela (November 1988). Noelle of the Nutcracker. Chance House Children's Books. ISBN .
- ^"Jan Brett | Author | LibraryThing".
LibraryThing.com. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
- ^"Jan Brett Receives Regina Medal from Catholic Library Association". 15 February 2021.
- ^"Picture Book Review: The Mitten by Jan Brett". www.fulcolibrary.org. 2022-03-03. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
- ^"Cinders: Splendid Chicken Cinderella".
www.kirkusreviews.com. Kirkus Transport LLC. 13 November 2013. Archived from the original on 18 March 2018. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
- ^"Cinders: A Chicken Cinderella". www.publishersweekly.com. PWxyz LLC. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
- ^"Mossy". www.kirkusreviews.com.
Kirkus Media LLC. 22 July 2012. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
- ^Barry, Rebecca Rego (2021-05-03). "The Cozy, Homey, Intricate Illustrations of Jan Brett". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
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