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(BEGIN,MARY JANE)illus. ORIGINAL ART: PORCUPINE MOUSE / TWO MICE ON THE ROAD. Offered here is a wonderful watercolor from the Porcupine Mouse published by Wm. Morrow in 1988. Begin's work is exquisite - beautifully detailed and perfectly colored. Mary Jane Begin is a Rhode-Island-based award-winning illustrator whose work includes "The Wind in the Willows," "A Mouse Told His Mother", "Little Mouse's Painting", "Before I Go To Sleep", "The Porcupine Mouse", and "Jeremy's First Haircut". In 2005 she released "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and "R is for Rhode Island Red". Her schooling included the Rhode Island School of Design, where she now teaches. She has won several awards and prizes including the Critici Erba Prize at the Bologna Book Fair and First Place, Juvenile Trade, at the New York Book Show. This image shows 2 mice stopping on the road. Notation that it appears on page 8 ("After they set off down the road"). Image measures 8" wide x 5 3/4 high, signed on art paper 10 1/4 x 8".

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