The Wild Christmas Reindeer [Board book]

Little Teeka thought she had to be firm with the reindeer to get them ready for Santa's important flight, but when her bossy yelling only got their antlerstangled up, she knew she had to try something different. 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 AA? sweet Christmas fantasy that shows Brett at her best. --Publishers Weekly This tale with its humorous close-ups of stubborn reindeer and a sharp child protagonist should prove popular at story hours. --School Library Journal★  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 lĂ`