Jan Brett was born on December 1, 1949, in Hingham, Massachusetts. She loved to draw when she was a kid; she was shy, and expressed herself through her pictures. By the age of six, she had decided to be a children's book illustrator. Her childhood pets would later show up in many of her books.
She attended Colby Junior College and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School. She shortly began illustrating other authors' books, and eventually moved to creating her own text to go along with her pictures. In 1981, Fritz and the Beautiful Horses was published - her first wholly-her-own work.
Jan currently lives in the seacoast town of Norwell, Massachusetts. She spends her summers in the mountains, where she works on her own books, and also adapts and illustrates historic folktales.
Jan's husband is a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and was her inspiration for Berlioz, the Bear. She has a horse named Hans and a hedgehog named Buffy.
Books
Annie and the Wild Animals
Armadillo Rodeo
Beauty and the Beast
Berlioz the Bear
Christmas Trolls
Comet's Nine Lives
The First Dog
Fritz and the Beautiful Horses
Gingerbread Baby
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Happy Birthday, Dear Duck
Happy Hens
The Hat
Hedgie's Surprise
The Mitten
Mother's Day Mice
The Night Before Christmas
Noelle of the Nutcracker
The Owl and the Pussycat
Scary, Scary Halloween
St. Patrick's Day in the Morning
Town Mouse, Country Mouse
The Trouble With Trolls
The Twelve Days of Christmas
The Valentine Bears
The Wild Christmas Reindeer
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http://teacher.scholastic.com
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/brett.htm
www.janbrett.com
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