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- Beany Wakes Up for Christmas (1988)
Story by Lisa Bassett
Pictures by Jeni Bassett
Jeni Bassett delights in real animals as much as she does in drawing them, and often gets new ideas from sketching her pets. Her rabbit family inspired the bunnies cavorting through the first books she illustrated, "Bunches and Bunches of Bunnies". Since then her whimsical animal characters have appeared in "Gator Pie", "The Great Take-Away", "Cluck One", and other titles. She and her sister, Lisa, created Beany Bear and Scamp Squirrel for "A Clock for Beany" and "Beany and Scamp".
Jeni has studied art at her mother's Art Workshop in Winter Park, Florida, since she was a youngster. She and her husband live in Winter Park.
Lisa Bassett and her sister, Jeni, grew up in Winter Park, Florida, where "there are a number of inspiring squirrels but very few bears". Lisa graduated with honors in English from Rollins College and had an M.A. in English from The University of Texas at Austin where she teaches English. In addition to the Beany and Scamp stories, she is the author of "Very Truly Yours, Charles L. Dodgson, Alias Lewis Carroll".
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