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Jan Brett

Autor(a) de The Mitten

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About the Author

Bestselling children's book author and illustrator Jan Brett was born on December 1, 1949. She decided to be an illustrator when she was a child and is known for her detailed and carefully-researched work. Brett grew up in New England and attended the Boston Museum School. Her books have received mostrar mais much acclaim by publications including Newsweek, The New Yorker, Parents magazine, Redbook, and Publishers Weekly. In 2005 Brett earned the Boston Public Library's Lifetime Achievement Award. Her book Three Little Dassies was published in 2010 and made the New York Times bestseller list. Other of her works that have made the New York Times best seller list are: Home for Christmas 2011, Mossy 2012, Cinders: A Chicken Cinderella., 2014 The Animal's Santa. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Séries

Obras por Jan Brett

The Mitten (1989) 9,438 exemplares
The Hat (1997) 5,292 exemplares
Gingerbread Baby (1999) 3,255 exemplares
Town Mouse, Country Mouse (1994) 3,060 exemplares
The Umbrella (2002) 2,499 exemplares
The Wild Christmas Reindeer (1990) 2,418 exemplares
The Three Snow Bears (2007) 2,198 exemplares
Berlioz the Bear (1991) 2,150 exemplares
Hedgie's Surprise (2002) 2,103 exemplares
Goldilocks and the Three Bears (1987) 2,058 exemplares
Annie and the Wild Animals (1985) 2,054 exemplares
Honey... Honey... Lion! (2005) 1,920 exemplares
On Noah's Ark (2003) 1,805 exemplares
Armadillo Rodeo (1995) 1,799 exemplares
Trouble with Trolls (1992) 1,738 exemplares
Daisy Comes Home (2002) 1,728 exemplares
The Owl and the Pussycat (Jan Brett) (1991) 1,526 exemplares
Gingerbread Friends (2008) 1,449 exemplares
Comet's Nine Lives (1996) 1,427 exemplares
Who's That Knocking on Christmas Eve? (2002) 1,404 exemplares
The Twelve Days of Christmas (1986) 1,295 exemplares
Christmas Trolls (1993) 1,206 exemplares
The First Dog (1988) 1,122 exemplares
Fritz and the Beautiful Horses (1981) 1,105 exemplares
The Easter Egg (2010) 1,105 exemplares
Hedgie Loves to Read (2006) 1,095 exemplares
Beauty and the Beast (1989) 733 exemplares
Hedgie Blasts Off! (2006) 620 exemplares
Home for Christmas (2011) 616 exemplares
The 3 Little Dassies (2010) 496 exemplares
Mossy (2012) 448 exemplares
The Animals' Santa (2014) 411 exemplares
The Snowy Nap (2018) 399 exemplares
Cinders: A Chicken Cinderella (2013) 382 exemplares
Jan Brett's Christmas Treasury (2001) 369 exemplares
Gingerbread Christmas (2016) 328 exemplares
The Turnip (2015) 203 exemplares
The Mermaid (2017) 179 exemplares
Cozy (2020) 171 exemplares
Jan Brett's The Nutcracker (2021) 141 exemplares
Jan Brett's Snowy Treasury (2009) 124 exemplares
The Tale of the Tiger Slippers (2019) 73 exemplares
Cozy in Love (2022) 38 exemplares
Jan Brett's Little Library (2003) 15 exemplares
Jan Brett's Animal Treasury (2017) 13 exemplares
Good Luck Sneakers (1983) 8 exemplares
Running Free (1984) 3 exemplares
Left By Themselves 2 exemplares
Un jardin tout en fleurs (1999) 2 exemplares
Cheyenne Again 1 exemplar
DANS MA FAMILLE (2008) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Valentine Bears (1983) — Ilustrador — 1,420 exemplares
St. Patrick's Day in the Morning (1980) — Ilustrador — 1,008 exemplares
The Mother's Day Mice (1986) — Ilustrador — 898 exemplares
Scary, Scary Halloween (1986) — Ilustrador — 718 exemplares
Eskimo Boy: Life in an Inupiaq Village (1992)algumas edições213 exemplares
Happy Birthday, Dear Duck (1988) — Ilustrador — 180 exemplares
Noelle of the Nutcracker (1986) — Ilustrador, algumas edições94 exemplares
The Enchanted Book: A Tale from Krakow (1987) — Ilustrador — 45 exemplares
The Secret Clocks: Time Senses of Living Things (1979) — Ilustrador — 32 exemplares
Young Melvin and Bulger (1979) — Ilustrador — 28 exemplares
In the Castle of Cats (1981) — Ilustrador — 14 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 9, May 1978 (1978) — Ilustrador — 5 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 7, March 1978 (1978) — Ilustrador — 5 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 3, November 1977 (1971) — Ilustrador — 3 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 1, September 1978 (1978) — Ilustrador — 2 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 10, June 1978 — Ilustrador — 2 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 4, December 1980 — Ilustrador — 2 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 12, August 1977 (1970) — Ilustrador — 2 exemplares
The Story of Santa Claus (1987) — Ilustrador — 2 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, October 1978 (1978) — Ilustrador — 2 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 12, August 1978 (1978) — Ilustrador — 1 exemplar

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Conhecimento Comum

Outros nomes
Brett Bowler, Jan
Data de nascimento
1949-12-01
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Norwell, Massachusetts, USA
Locais de residência
Norwell, Massachusetts, USA
Educação
Boston Museum School
Ocupações
illustrator
author

Membros

Críticas

 
Assinalado
Whisper1 | 7 outras críticas | Mar 17, 2024 |
The classic French fairytale of Cinderella gets the galline treatment in this picture book from prolific author/illustrator Jan Brett, who transplants the story to an eighteenth-century Russian henhouse. As a young Russian girl named Tasha goes to feed her flock of chickens one bitterly cold night, falling asleep in the cozy hen tower, the chickens themselves (dressed in traditional Russian finery) head to a ball at Prince Cockerel's ice palace. Only drab little Cinders doesn't go, until her fairy godmother, a beautiful Silkie hen, give her everything she needs to attend. The rest of the story plays out as one would expect, and the book closes with the return of Tasha's father, bringing a handsome cockerel with him...

Apparently Jan Brett keeps chickens, and is a great admirer of their lively personalities. After a discussion with her editor, also a chicken admirer, she decided to retell Cinderella in this form, and to set it in a Russian winter. She and her husband travelled to St. Petersburg to visit palaces and country dachas, in order to gain aesthetic inspiration. The result is a book that, although visually pleasing—beautifully painted and ornately decorative, it has the lovely side panels I have come to expect from Brett's work—failed to appeal to me as it might have done. I think in the end I just couldn't warm to the idea of a chicken Cinderella, despite the book's other good qualities. Other readers might feel differently of course, and it is to them, and to fans of Jan Brett's artwork that I would recommend this one.
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AbigailAdams26 | 9 outras críticas | Mar 3, 2024 |
 
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AnkaraLibrary | 37 outras críticas | Feb 29, 2024 |
Another beautifully illustrated picture book by Jan Brett. Having chickens as the characters in a Cinderella fairytale is kind of an unusual choice, but why not? It's still a (prince) charming story for early elementary kids.
 
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Grandma_B | 9 outras críticas | Feb 28, 2024 |

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Obras
65
Also by
21
Membros
66,418
Popularidade
#207
Avaliação
4.1
Críticas
1,418
ISBN
736
Línguas
11
Marcado como favorito
35

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