How to Catch a Star

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From figurative painting, collage and installation to illustration and award winning picture-books, Oliver Jeffers practice takes many forms. Althought the story is simple, remember you are reading to a child, my 2 yr old is amazed at how many things have stars in them other than the sky. Every night he watched them sailing in the sky outside his bedroom window and dreamed of making friends with them, playing games of hide-and-seek together. He started creating children's books when people wouldn't believe what happened to him unless he pretended he was telling 'stories'.

And I don't think I would have been as lucky as finding someone "small and still curious about the world" like she had. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Whenever my toddler wakes up from his afternoon nap in inconsolable tears, as he occasionally does for some mysterious reason, this book always immediately comforts him from the opening page. Oliver Jeffers offers a simple, childlike tale of reaching for the stars, and emerging with a friend. An inspirational story of a boy who loved the stars so much, he decided to catch one of his very own.

The children in my setting loved the story, they are big fans of the nursery rhyme Twinkle twinkle little star, so I knew they would be interested in this. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. Lost and Found became Oliver's first book to made into animation by London based Studio AKA, screening on Christmas Eve 2008 on Channel 4 in the UK and on Nickelodeon in the US and Australia.

The beautiful child-like innocence and awe we used to have is something he perfectly portrays in his writing and illustrations. He has made art for Newsweek, The New York Times, United Airlines, TED, Nintendo, and has illustrated a a number of novels. Celebrate the 10th anniversary of How to Catch a Star with this new toddler-friendly board book edition! We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. His books include How to Catch a Star; Lost and Found , which was the recipient of the prestigious Nestle Children's Book Prize Gold Award in the U.A wonderful book, beautiful illustrations and my 2 year old insists on it being read every night before he goes to bed. It made me realise that while losing someone is, indeed, horrible but shutting yourself away in a protective shell doesn't help the situation nor is it something that person would ever want. Not sure how to explain it best: the prose is so nicely paced and there's a really good ratio of illustrations to words (more pictures than words), yet there's still a proper narrative to the book. Finally, just when the boy is ready to give up, he learns that sometimes things aren't where, or what, we expect them to be. Oliver Jeffers is a creative, brilliant author that really shows his amazing imagination through his books.

Personally I wasn't sure about the illustrations, they're quite stylised, but this book has quickly become one of my son's favourites. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site.If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. His outstanding talent has already been recognised by several high-profile awards, including the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Gold Award, the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award and the Irish Children's Book of the Year. His distinctive paintings have been exhibited in multiple cities, including the National Portrait Gallery in London and the Brooklyn Museum New York. An inspirational story from internationally bestselling, multi-prize-winning picture book creator Oliver Jeffers.