When Lisa's woolen stocking flies off the clothesline, Hedgie finds it and pokes his nose in. He tries to pull it out, but the stocking gets stuck on his prickles - and the fun begins.
With over thirty four million books in print, Jan Brett is one of
the nation'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."
"A clever and appealing picture book . . . . Brett's illustrations
are done in her trademark style of highly detailed depictions of
her characters and a creative use of borders. . . . 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. Brett's
somber tones of pre-winter are enlivened by the intricate, colorful
clothing; her fine, independent heroine is in charge of the story,
and the inventive little hedgehog triumphs as well."—Kirkus Reviews
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