The Animals' Santa
  • Published: 12 January 2022
  • ISBN: 9781984816801
  • Imprint: Putnam
  • Format: Board Book
  • Pages: 34
  • RRP: $29.99

The Animals' Santa

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21 Oct 2014
Board Book
12 Jan 2022
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One of Jan Brett's most kid-friendly Christmas classics is now perfect for little hands as a board book!

Now a board book just right for the littlest hands, this modern Christmas classic highlighting how animals are just as curious as kids about their own Santa makes the perfect stocking stuffer.

When Big Snowshoe tells Little Snow that the animals’ Santa is coming with presents for everyone, Little Snow wants to know who he is. The animals say they have never seen him.  Maybe he’s a badger, a moose, a polar bear, or a wolf, they tell him. But this spunky little rabbit thinks they are just fooling him.

On Christmas Eve, Big Snowshoe is determined to make Little Snow into a believer, and all of the animals are delighted when he succeeds, including the animals' Santa.

Love of animals, winter, and all things Christmas is on grand display in this original holiday story, a perfect edition to families' Jan Brett holiday collection.
  • Published: 12 January 2022
  • ISBN: 9781984816801
  • Imprint: Putnam
  • Format: Board Book
  • Pages: 34
  • RRP: $29.99
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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

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
The Snowy Nap
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Praise for The Animals' Santa

Praise for The Animals' Santa:
As usual, Brett's illustrations are the highlight--lush and magical, filled with whimsical details that will reward repeated viewings." --School Library Journal

Praise for The Night Before Christmas:

"Brett glorifies an old-fashioned Christmas in her lavish and detailed edition of the classic poem. . . This eye- filling volume offer a wealth of detail, perfect for sharing in the days counting down to Christmas." --Kirkus Reviews

"Utterly endearing. Brett's elves add a lighthearted dimension to this Christmas classic, while her illustrations maintain the appealing Victorian flair of the original." --School Library Journal

Praise for The Wild Christmas Reindeer:

"Beautifully conceived and finely wrought." --Booklist, starred review

"The reindeer themselves rpovide most of the comic action in this sweet Christmas fantasy that shows Brett at her best." --Publishers Weekly

Praise for The Twelve Days of Christmas:

"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 balsam boughs of the Christmas trees that flank the margins." --The New York Times

Praise for Christmas Trolls:

"The artist's fans will enjoy her Scandinavian costumes, snowy vistas, rich colors and intricate designs." --School Library Journal

"Children will love following the hedgehog's progress through the pages." --Booklist