Comet's Nine Lives
$42.07
- Hardcover
32 pages
- Release Date
27 August 1996
Summary
Like all cats, Comet knew he had been born with nine lives. But he’d never thought much about it until the day he lost life number one in a flower garden on Nantucket. He’d spent lazy days wandering all over the island, not calling any one place home. Now he knows it is time to settle down. But Comet’s lives begin to disappear all too quickly, as he gets into one humorous predicament after another. Then comes the day of the big hurricane….
Beautiful island scenes—sandy beaches, hillsi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780399229312 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0399229310 |
| Author: | Jan Brett |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | G P Putnam's Sons |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 32 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 1996 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 265mm x 229mm |
| Audience Age: | 4-8 |
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Critics Review
“Brett’s style is deliciously intricate and detailed. Charming.”
—USA Today
“Brett’s many avid fans are sure to love this book.”
—School Library Journal
“As always, Brett captures the essence of her setting … in a luscious and loving tribute to New England.”
—Booklist
Jan Brett
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.”
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