The Twelve Days of Christmas by Jan Brett (English) Board Book Book

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Brett's classic picture book is now available in this charming board book format for sharing the wonder and magic of Christmas with the youngest readers. Full color.

FORMATBoard Book LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description

Jan Brett's The Twelve Days of Christmas has long been a holiday favorite. Now this classic picture book is a charming board book for sharing the wonder and magic of Christmas with the youngest readers. And like the board book editions of The Mitten and The Hat, it will be the perfect

Author Biography

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 sleig

Review

A Booklist Editors' ChoiceAn American Bookseller Pick of the Lists"Jan Brett's illustrations are plump, whimsical and full of the sort of feather-by-feather detail that makes you want to pat the turtledoves, bite into the pears and bury your nose in the boughs of the Christmas trees that flank the margins.A warm book to the touch." —The New York Times Book Review"A festive interpretation of the traditional holiday favorite. . . A beautifully executed visual feast." —Booklist (starred review)"Striking and opulent." —School Library Journal

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A warm book to the touch." The New York Times Book Review

Details ISBN0399243291 Author Jan Brett Pages 32 Edition Description Board Book Language English Illustrator Jan Brett ISBN-10 0399243291 ISBN-13 9780399243295 Media Book Illustrations Yes Year 2004 Short Title 12 DAYS OF XMAS BOARD BK/E-BOA Residence MA, US Birth 1949 Audience Age 1-3 Country of Publication United States Place of Publication New York Imprint Putnam Publishing Group,U.S. DOI 10.1604/9780399243295 AU Release Date 2004-09-16 NZ Release Date 2004-09-16 US Release Date 2004-09-16 UK Release Date 2004-09-16 Publisher Putnam Publishing Group,U.S. Format Board Book Publication Date 2004-09-16 DEWEY 782.42172302 Audience Children / Juvenile We've got this

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