Comet's Nine Lives - by Jan Brett (Paperback)

About the Book

When Comet the cat walks away from the lighthouse close to his birthplace on Nantucket Island, he wonders if he will find a home before he uses up all nine lives. Full-color illustrations.

Book Synopsis

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?

Review Quotes

"Brett's style is deliciously intricate and detailed. Charming."
--USA Today

"Brett's 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

About the Author

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."