Available Formats
Comet's Nine Lives
By (Author) Jan Brett
Illustrated by Jan Brett
Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.
Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.
21st May 2001
United States
Children
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Pets and pet care
Childrens / Teenage: Social issues / topics
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Death and grief
Paperback
32
Width 254mm, Height 222mm, Spine 4mm
130g
It all begins when Comet walks away from the lighthouse close to his birthplace on Nantucket Island. He visits a garden, a bookstore, a boat, and a party, and at each place he gets into trouble and loses one of his lives. Comet starts to worry. He longs for a home, a place where he'll be safe. Will he find one before he uses up all nine lives
Bretts style is deliciously intricate and detailed. Charming.
USA Today
Bretts many avid fans are sure to love this book.
School Library Journal
As always, Brett captures the essence of her setting . . . in a luscious and loving tribute to New England.
Booklist
With 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."