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A couple of suggestions: 1. I would make a separate comment box. I know that you have options for people to comment on the actual contents, but an actual comment box would be better. Right now, anyone with your link can modify your page. If you change the settings and then create a comment box, that would allow people to just put a comment. 2. Label your "external websites". You can give them titles and I think that would help your readers (especially if you want to use this with children) to know what it is they are looking at. I really like the layout of your page. It is easy to find the information and it is visually appealing. Nice work.

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MaKenzie Kimes
I love your background it caught my eye when i open it! I love how you made all  your sources in a different color! I did not know Jan Breet's wrote all of these book! I look forward into  reading some of these books! You Did Amazing job!

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Corbin Mann:
Love your padlet! It's very colorful and very interesting! I enjoyed how the different sources are colors according to their information. Good job!

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Kassie Funk:
I love your presentation! The set up is very nice and I enjoyed seeing some of the books I am familiar with. Since I didn't know about Jan Brett you had some very informative facts about her. A suggestion I have is to add a section that lists some of her other books! Overall, great job.

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Carolyn Aughe
Hello your padlet is very colorful and like how you made each post a different color. I enjoyed the links you had for the author because they are great for kids to look at. Great job on your padlet!

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Olivia Murray
Hello, your padlet looks great! It seems like you have included a lot of really good information and I like the video you chose. I read the mitten to a class of kindergarteners a few months ago and they absolutely loved it. Great choice, keep up the good work!

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Jan Brett is a well known children's author and illustrator. She was born on
December 1, 1949 in Hingham, Massachusetts. Her parents always encouraged her to
be creative when she was young. Her passion for drawing began at a young age and
when she was in kindergarten she knew she wanted to be an illustrator. Jan
wanted to create books where the pictures come alive. "A picture is never
finished until I feel I can walk into a page", says Jan Brett. Her love of
drawing continued throughout her schooling at the local public school. After
high school, Jan went on to study art at Colby Junior College. She also took art
classes at the Boston Museum Fine Arts School.

"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."

Brett started making a living by selling her drawings. She created pictures for greeting
cards, restaurant menus and science books.

Her career creating children's books began in 1978 when she illustrated Woodland
Crossings by Stephen Kensky. However, Brett was determined to write and
illustrate her own books. She said, "What I really wanted to do was to create
the kind of book I had always been looking for when I was a child. A story that
has characters who develop and with pictures that create a whole place, pictures
you could almost step into." Fritz and the Wild Horses was the first
book she did that with.

Currently, Jan is married to Joseph Hearne. He plays the double bass with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Jan and Joseph met through there love of flying. They live in Norwell, Massachusetts. At her home, her work area has many windows that
allow a lot of sunlight in for her work. In order for Jan to work late at night, she has special lighting in her home. She uses drybrush water-coloring for her pictures. It is like drawing with a pencil because there is vey little liquid in the paint. Brett shares her home with many pets, including a
hedgehog!

Brett's books are very unique to her and all have a special look. Each two page drawing has a border around it that is full of extra illustrations that add more detail to the story. These
illustrations tell more about what the character is doing and allow the reader
to predict what will happen next. She does these borders because she has too
many ideas to put into one drawing.

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Jan Brett is a well known children's author and illustrator. She was born on December 1, 1949 in Hingham, Massachusetts. Her parents always encouraged her to be creative when she was young. Her passion for drawing began at a young age and when she was in kindergarten she knew she wanted to be an illustrator.

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Click on an image for the complete set of printable cards.

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Author Jan Brett’s Free Coloring, Video and Activity Pages

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A collection of projects and activities of books for kids, and classroom activities and lesson plans for teachers about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.

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Jan Brett is an American author and illustrator of children's books. She is known for her detailed drawings of a wide variety of animals. Her best known books include The Mitten, The Hat, and Gingerbread Baby. Brett's inspiration comes from traveling to different countries and seeing the world. She enjoys studying the different traditions of many countries which she uses as a starting point to write her books.

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This book is about a girl named Mei Mei who owns six hens. The smallest of the hens was named Daisy. Daisy always got picked on by the other hens every night. They teased her so she decided to sleep on the floor. One day it rained all day and the hens flew up to their perch except Daisy. She was outside finding a place to stay the night. Before she knew it, she was headed down a river and came across many different animals. A man found Daisy and brought her to a market. Luckily, Mei Mei was on her way to the market too. She saw Daisy from a distance and was relieved that her special hen was alright.

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Jan Brett has won many awards for her children's books:
Hedgie's Surprise- Georgia's Children Literature Award 2003
Gingerbread Baby- ABC Children's Book Sellers Choice Award  2000 and Children's Gallery Award 2001
The Hat- American Book Sellers Book Sense Book of the Year 1988
Berlioz the Bear- SMART Book Award, 2001 Nominee United States
State & Provincial Reading List :Golden Sower Award, 1994
The Three Snow Bears- Children's Choice Book Award, 2008 Finalist Illustrator of the Year United States
State & Provincial Reading List :Arkansas Diamond Primary Book Award, 2009-2010
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-She received the Booklist Editor’s Choice from the American Library Association in 1986 and 1987.
-She was first awarded the Parents’ Choice Award by the Parents’ Choice Foundation in 1981.

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1. American author and illustrator of 39 children's books.
2. Known for detailed drawings of animals.
3. She has over 41 million books in print.
4. Most popular books are The Mitten, The Hat, and Gingerbread Baby.
5. Won several awards for 5 of her most famous books.
6. Published her first book at the age of 27
7. Loves to show children how to draw animals.
8. She studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Art School in 1970.
9. Before she started writing books, she started out making a living by selling her drawings.
10. She started out with drawing pictures for greeting cards,  restaurant menus, and science books.

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Link to video of The Mitten

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This book is about a boy named Nicki who accidentally drops his mitten in the snow. One by one, animals such as a mouse, rabbit, mole, fox, badger, hedgehog, owl, and bear find the mitten and wedge their way into it. The animals think it is a warm and cozy hideout during the cold blustery winter. As they all try to stuff themselves in the tight mitten, the big brown bear sneezes and BOOM, the mitten breaks open because it was so tightly stuffed with all the animals in it. In the end, Nicki found his white mitten in the distance against the blue sky.

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Every morning, the hungry Tomten came into the barn stealing an egg that Henny laid, and cooked it for breakfast. Henny doesn’t like Tomten taking her eggs but she doesn’t do anything. One day, Henny sees a goose and her goslings and realizes that she wants chicks of her own someday. But she doesn't know how she would ever be able to lay eggs if the Tomten keeps stealing them from her every morning. She tries to trick the Tomten by having him take an acorn, strawberry, mushroom and potato but the Tomten is never quite satisfied. With the help of her good friend, Hedgie, she is able to trick the Tomten with a clever plan.

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This book is about a boy who takes an adventure in the forest. He leaves his umbrella at the foot of a fig tree, next to a river and continues to explore. When he is not looking, several animals jump into the umbrella, each one bigger than the last. Starting with a tiny tree frog, then follows a toucan, then a kinkajou, a baby tapir, a quetzal, a monkey, and a jaguar! The umbrella is sinking deeper and deeper into the water. Eventually, the umbrella tumbles over and everyone falls out. Meanwhile, Carlos is going animal sighting and wonders where they all could be!

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This book is about a girl named Lisa who took her woolen clothes outside and hung them up in the fresh air. One of her stockings blew off the clothing line and Hedgie the hedgehog found it. He wore his new hat with pride as he showed all the other animals. The hen, gander, cat, farmer's dog, pig, and horse all made fun of Hedgie’s silly hat that he was wearing everywhere. Hedgie didn’t like being made fun of. Eventually, Lisa caught up to Hedgie and pulled the stocking off Hedgie’s head and went to put it back on the clothing line. Lisa realized that ALL of her clothing items were missing! She saw all of the animals taking her clothing and wearing it as hats!

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This book shows the traditional story of The Night Before Christmas with new illustrations that capture the story in it’s own unique way. The colorful illustrations help show the perspective from some of the characters in the story. There is Santa eating cookies, the reindeer on top of the roof, the presents under the Christmas tree, the stocking being stuffed, clear descriptions of what Santa is wearing, and expressions on the reindeer's faces. His elves came along to help him deliver the presents too. This is a favorite holiday classic story, loved by children and adults, told in Jan Brett style!