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Jan Brett

Jan Brett is a New York Times best-selling children’s book author and illustrator with more than 44 million books in print. Her work often begins with research expeditions across the Americas, the Artic, Asia, Europe and Africa. She has studied flora, fauna and local cultures worldwide, and has set lush retellings of fairy tales on almost every continent.

Musk ox calves vie for grass on a farm near Palmer, Alaska.

Author Jan Brett Pans for Creative Gold in Alaska

Trips to the 49th state inspired the characters in the writer-illustrator’s latest children’s book “Cozy in Love”