Jan Brett's Christmas Treasury
  • Published: 18 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9780525517184
  • Imprint: Putnam
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $100.00

Jan Brett's Christmas Treasury

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A festive treasury featuring seven of Jan Brett's classic Christmas titles, a perfect gift that will be the center of family holidays for years to come!

A festive treasury featuring seven of Jan Brett's classic Christmas titles, a perfect gift that will be the center of family holidays for years to come!

This deluxe Christmas collection is the perfect holiday gift! It includes seven of Jan Brett's most beloved Yuletide titles: The Night Before Christmas, Trouble with Trolls, Christmas Trolls, The Mitten, The Hat, The Twelve Days of Christmas, and The Wild Christmas Reindeer.
  • Published: 18 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9780525517184
  • Imprint: Putnam
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $100.00
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About the author

Jan Brett

With over thirty seven million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the USA'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.'

Also by Jan Brett

Alice in a Winter Wonderland
Jan Brett's Winter Collection Box Set
Cozy in Love
Jan Brett's The Nutcracker
Cozy
The Night Before Christmas
The Tale of the Tiger Slippers
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Praise for Jan Brett's Christmas Treasury

Praise for The Night Before Christmas:
★ "Another holiday keepsake from a master."--Publishers Weekly, starred review

"This eye-filling volume offers a wealth of detail, perfect for sharing in the days counting down to Christmas."--Kirkus Reviews

Praise for Trouble with Trolls:
"A Scandinavian girl must use her wits to outsmart a bunch of pesky trolls in Brett's latest picture book . . . . Brett's sumptuous paintings are typically replete with detail of landscape and costume, this time vividly capturing Scandinavian mountains and villages . . . . A wintry winner with a sunny glow."--Publishers Weekly

"Set against a wintery, snow-capped background, the saturated colors seem to jump off the page."--School Library Journal

Praise for Christmas Trolls:
"Treva teaches a pair of greedy little trolls how to celebrate Christmas . . . . Fans will be enchanted, once again, with the lovingly detailed folk/Scandinavian details in Brett's bright, crisply delineated art, especially in the intriguing borders."--Kirkus Reviews

Praise for The Mitten:
"The illustrations are exquisite . . . a charming lap book to be pored over again and again."--School Library Journal

"Readers will sit back and suspend belief and welcome this tall tale from the Ukrainian tradition."--Publishers Weekly

Praise for The Hat:
"A clever and appealing picture book . . . . The pictures, story, and subject matter make this a natural for sharing aloud."--School Library Journal

"In a companion book to Brett's The Mitten (1989), a little girl decides to unpack her winter woolens from their decorated chest and hang them out on a line to air before winter comes . . . . The satisfying story celebrates the cozy hearth, home, and barnyard of picturesque Scandinavian country life, frozen in time."--Kirkus Reviews

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