
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. Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing that the imaginary place I'm drawing really exists. She says, "I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. As a child, Jan Brett decided to be an illustrator and spent many hours reading and drawing. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. With over thirty four million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation's foremost author illustrators of children's books.
