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Meet Jan Brett


Author Susan Raab
Air Date 10/26/2006

Jan Brett Transcript

At this past summer’s American Library Association convention, Recess correspondent Susan Raab asked the award-winning, best-selling author/illustator Jan Brett about the kinds of roles that children’s books play, in the lives of both young and grown-up people — even if the book is about (maybe especially if the book is about!) a hedgehog named Hedgie, one of Jan Brett’s favorite subjects. Here’s Jan Brett:

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