The Wild Christmas Reindeer [Hardcover]

For two decades, readers have loved this classic Christmas story, which was one of the first children's books to hit theNew York Timesbestseller list. Now, this beautiful 20th anniversary edition, with a foil cover and a heartfelt note from Jan herself, makes a perfect introduction for new fans to this cherished yuletide story.

Featuring the wintry northern setting and the border illustrations that have become a hallmark of Jan's work, readers will love watching Teeka's humorous attempts to control the rambunctious reindeer in time for their Christmas run.

★  Beautifully conceived and finely wrought. —Booklist, starred review

Brett's precise, glowing illustrations, drawing on Swedish folk art, make this a beguiling Advent calendar of a book. —Kirkus Reviews

This tale with its humorous close-ups of stubborn reindeer and a sharp child protagonist should prove popular at story hours. —School Library JournalWith 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 ancientlƒ]