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 friendship and home.
What the Kate Greenaway Award judges said:
'Jeffers somehow manages to convey a whole host of emotions and moods with his stick figures. His style is so clever with its surreal and amusing details, and there is some great variation in the spreads both in terms of illustration and colour. Lovely metallic endpapers too!'
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Shining star Oliver Jeffers is back with this star spangled inter-galactic adventure tale in space! One day a boy finds an aeroplane in his cupboard. Up, up, up and away he flies, high into the sky. Whizzing past clouds, stars and planets until suddenly, he runs out of petrol! Miles from earth, the boy crashes into the moon and waits. Just as he is beginning to get cold and lonely, a friendly martian appears from the darkness, also with a broken aircraft. Together they come up with a super plan to float the boy back down to earth to collect his toolbox. Can the boy find his way back home safely and will he ever make it back up to the moon to rescue his friend?
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Way Back Home and determined it is suitable for children aged 0-4 years old
The Way Back Home features in the following genres: Books for Babies and Toddlers, Featured Books for 3+ readers, Recommendations, Recommended Children's eBooks, Adventure Stories, Space, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, The Natural World, Children’s / Teenage: General interest
The Way Back Home is available in Board book, Paperback, Hardback
The Way Back Home was written by Oliver Jeffers and published by Harpercollins Publishers
The Way Back Home has 32 pages
£7.19
