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-The Horn Book
About the Author
With over thirty four 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."
Once there was a boy named Nicki, He wanted mittens as white as snow. Read the first page
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Beautifully illustrated but I like Tresselt's version better,
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This review is from: The Mitten Board Book Edition (Board book)
As a preschool teacher and a parent, I prefer the Tresselt version of this story. In Brett's version, the animals in the mitten each let the next one enter out of fear. I think this can be a dangerous lesson to teach young children. Tresselt's animals let each other in because they want to help them when they see them suffering from cold. I think it conveys more positive and humane values, and it also told with gentle wit and wisdom.
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Mitten Board Book Edition (Board book)
If you know a child who loves animals buy this book. Everyone cuddles together and gets along. This book is about a lost mitten but it really is a home for animals. Good reading and a fun book.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A few things you should know about 'The Mitten',
This review is from: The Mitten Board Book Edition (Board book)
In the deep Ukrainian wintertime, very little stirs.But some are still awake in the snow - rabbits and foxes and bears. Nicki's missing mitten becomes home to various creatures, And he only gets it back when the big bear sneezes. Beautiful folkish drawings bring this humorous tale to life. But this board book version's ABRIDGED - so four stars only, not five.
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