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On Noah's Ark

Hardback

Main Details

Title On Noah's Ark
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Jan Brett
Illustrated by Jan Brett
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:32
Dimensions(mm): Height 301,Width 241
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Biblical studies
ISBN/Barcode 9780399240287
Audience
Children / Juvenile

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint G P Putnam's Sons
Publication Date 29 September 2003
Publication Country United States

Description

Noah's granddaughter helps him bring the animals onto the ark, calm them down, and get them to sleep.

Author Biography

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 sleig