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    The Twelve Days of Christmas

    Author Jan Brett
    Illustrated by Jan Brett
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    Board Book
    $9.99 US
    Penguin Young Readers | G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
    5"W x 6.25"H x 0.64"D  
    On sale Sep 16, 2004 | 32 Pages | 9780399243295
    Up to Preschool
    Reading Level: Lexile NP
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    Jan Brett's The Twelve Days of Christmas has long been a holiday favorite. Now this classic picture book has been redesigned for maximum legibility as a charming board book, perfect for sharing the wonder and magic of Christmas with Jan Brett's youngest fans.
    With more than 44 million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation’s foremost illustrators of children’s books.  As a child, she decided to be an illustrator and spent much of her time reading and drawing. As a student at the Boston Museum School, Jan spent many hours in the Museum of Fine Arts. Travel is also a constant inspiration, so with her husband, Joe Hearne, who was a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, she visits many different countries where she researches the architecture and costumes that appear in her work. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts. View titles by Jan Brett
    A Booklist Editors’ Choice
    An 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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    Jan Brett's The Twelve Days of Christmas has long been a holiday favorite. Now this classic picture book has been redesigned for maximum legibility as a charming board book, perfect for sharing the wonder and magic of Christmas with Jan Brett's youngest fans.

    Author

    With more than 44 million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation’s foremost illustrators of children’s books.  As a child, she decided to be an illustrator and spent much of her time reading and drawing. As a student at the Boston Museum School, Jan spent many hours in the Museum of Fine Arts. Travel is also a constant inspiration, so with her husband, Joe Hearne, who was a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, she visits many different countries where she researches the architecture and costumes that appear in her work. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts. View titles by Jan Brett

    Praise

    A Booklist Editors’ Choice
    An 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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