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Oliver Jeffers

Oliver Jeffers is still relatively new to the world of book illustration and yet he has already won numerous awards and delighted millions of kids and parents alike with his beautifully hand illustrated stories. 

Jeffers's picture books are wonderfully accessible. They explore themes of friendship, loneliness, independence and imagination. He has written and illustrated, or "made", as he prefers to put it, five hugely successful picture books. The first three - the "boy books" - feature a small boy who sets off on a series of daunting quests. How to Catch a Star (2004), the first of them, was inspired by a Brer Rabbit story he read as a child. In Lost and Found (2005) the boy heroically rows to the south pole for the sake of an unhappy penguin, and in The Way Back Home (2007) he rescues a young Martian whose spaceship has crashed on the moon.

His latest The Heart and the Bottle is wholly compelling for the importance of its message and the brilliance of how that is conveyed in words and pictures. This is a book to return to time and time again says Julia Eccleshare, Lovereading4kids’ editorial expert.

 

Jeffers was born in Australia in 1977 and brought up in Belfast. He studied visual communication at the University of Ulster, and graduated in 2001. Jeffers became passionate about making picture books when he began to understand the subtle relationship between words and pictures – ‘that was what excited me. Until I got really involved, I hadn't realised how just a few words can totally change the meaning of a picture.’ Now living in New York, he works as a painter, designer, printmaker and installation artist, but remains very busy making picture books.

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Oliver loves plastic food, suitcase handles and Elvis, and has developed a bizarre habit of endlessly writing lists he never reads. He remains hell bent on travelling all over the world.

Featured Books, with extracts by Oliver Jeffers


How to Catch a Star
How to Catch a Star
Oliver Jeffers
A prize winning illustrator with a reputation for spare illustrations which pack a huge emotional punch. A little boy so loves the stars that he decides to set off and try to catch one. But catching a star is not as easy as...
Format: Board book - Released: 01/04/2010
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The Heart and the Bottle
The Heart and the Bottle
Oliver Jeffers
Award winning Oliver Jeffers’s latest book is wholly compelling for the importance of its message and the brilliance of how that is conveyed in words and pictures. To overcome her sadness when her grandfather dies a little girl decides to...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/02/2010
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The Incredible Book Eating Boy (pop-up edition)
The Incredible Book Eating Boy (pop-up edition)
Oliver Jeffers
Delicious pop-up spreads bring an interactive version of this popular story about a boy who loves books so much that he actually eats his way through them. An entertaining story about different ways of loving reading from an award winning...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/11/2009
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The Great Paper Caper
The Great Paper Caper
Oliver Jeffers
Shortlisted for the Bisto Irish Children's Book Award. Touching and funny, this is also a visually sophisticated picture book which lightly carries an important message about the use – and misuse - of resources. All is not well in the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/04/2009
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Lost and Found: Board Book
Lost and Found: Board Book
Oliver Jeffers
Celebrating the value of friendship, this is an exquisitely illustrated picture book with a simple story line. Opening his door and finding a penguin on it, the little boy takes pity on the sad looking creature who he immediately assumes is lost. Together...
Format: Board book - Released: 02/04/2009
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The Great Paper Caper
The Great Paper Caper
Oliver Jeffers
Shortlisted for the Bisto Irish Children's Book Award. Touching and funny, this is also a visually sophisticated picture book which lightly carries an important message about the use – and misuse - of resources. All is not well in the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2008
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The Way Back Home
The Way Back Home
Oliver Jeffers
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award 2009. This is an absolutely delightful book that is sure to capture the imagination of toddlers.  Jeffers’ illustrations are an absolute delight and together with the text tell an extraordinary and original story about...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2008
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The Way Back Home
The Way Back Home
Oliver Jeffers
Oliver Jeffers has been selected as one of The Big Picture campaign's Best New Illustrators in 2008. This is an absolutely delightful book that is sure to capture the imagination of toddlers.  Jeffers’ illustrations are an absolute delight and...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/09/2007
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The Incredible Book Eating Boy
The Incredible Book Eating Boy
Oliver Jeffers
Book and Audio CD. A brilliant picture book about a boy with an unusual attitude to books! Henry loves books but not in the same way as most people: Henry loves to eat books… He starts with just a word, then...
Format: Mixed media product - Released: 01/05/2007
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Incredible Book-eating Boy
Incredible Book-eating Boy
Oliver Jeffers
Oliver Jeffers has been selected as one of The Big Picture campaign's Best New Illustrators in 2008. A brilliant picture book about a boy with an unusual attitude to books! Henry loves books but not in the same way...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/09/2006
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Lost and Found
Lost and Found
Oliver Jeffers
Oliver Jeffers has been selected as one of The Big Picture campaign's Best New Illustrators in 2008. Winner of the Blue Peter Book Awards - Best Illustrated book to read aloud. Celebrating the value of friendship, this is an exquisitely illustrated...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2006
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Lost and Found
Lost and Found
Oliver Jeffers
Oliver Jeffers has been selected as one of The Big Picture campaign's Best New Illustrators in 2008. Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal 2005 (presented 2006) Celebrating the value of friendship, this is an exquisitely illustrated picture book with...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/09/2005
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How to Catch a Star
How to Catch a Star
Oliver Jeffers
A prize winning illustrator with a reputation for spare illustrations which pack a huge emotional punch. A little boy so loves the stars that he decides to set off and try to catch one. But catching a star is not...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/04/2005
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Books by Oliver Jeffers

The Heart and the Bottle
The Heart and the Bottle
Oliver Jeffers
Award-winning picture book star Oliver Jeffers explores themes of love and loss in this life-affirming, uplifting tale, due to be featured in a major motion picture.
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
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The Way Back Home
The Way Back Home
Oliver Jeffers
Shining star Oliver Jeffers is back with this star spangled inter-galactic adventure tale in space! Now available in gorgeous miniature hardback edition.
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/02/2010
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The Incredible Book Eating Boy
The Incredible Book Eating Boy
Oliver Jeffers
Roll up, roll up! Meet the Incredible Book Eating Boy! See his fantastic feats leap off the page in this stunning pop-up edition.
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/11/2009
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Once There Was a Boy ...
Once There Was a Boy ...
Oliver Jeffers
An irresistible little library slipcase of three award-winning stories by picture books star, Oliver Jeffers! Gorgeous small hardback edition to treasure.
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2008
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The Great Paper Caper
The Great Paper Caper
Oliver Jeffers
An exciting picture book, featuring brand new characters from highly-regarded, best-selling, multi-award-winning talent, Oliver Jeffers.
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2008
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The Incredible Book Eating Boy
The Incredible Book Eating Boy
Oliver Jeffers
The mouth-wateringly irresistible tale of a boy's insatiable hunger!
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/09/2006
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How to Catch a Star
How to Catch a Star
Oliver Jeffers
There once was a boy! and the boy loved stars very much!
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/07/2004
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