How to Catch a Star

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Oliver Jeffers offers a simple, childlike tale of reaching for the stars, and emerging with a friend. From figurative painting, collage and installation to illustration and award winning picture-books, Oliver Jeffers practice takes many forms.

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. Oliver Jeffers is a Northern Irish artist and author-illustrator of children’s picture books, including Lost and Found and Here We Are. 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. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.This is a magical, beautifully illustrated tale about reaching for dreams… Adults tend to think of waiting as tedious, but the magic of this book is that it understands waiting as children wait - alert, apprehensive and using their imaginations. Looking forward to getting some more books by this author for my little boy to enjoy when he's a little older. 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. Every night he watched the stars in the sky from his bedroom window and dreamed of how he could be their friend and how they could play hide-and-go-seek together. 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.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. At an early age, Oliver developed an appreciation of five-letter words and his loves include plastic food, wheels, suitcase handles, Elvis and, despite not having met one yet, polar bears. 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. This is a magical, beautifully illustrated tale about reaching for dreams… Adults tend to think of waiting as tedious, but the magic of this book is that it understands waiting as children wait – alert, apprehensive and using their imaginations. 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.

I will get through it, and when I do, I'll make sure to treasure every memory I have of them and tell myself that they are not truly dead, because they'll live long in the memories I have of them. So one day, he decided to catch a star of his very own… From the shining talent of Oliver Jeffers, winner of the Bisto Award, this inspirational, glittering story captures the magic of reaching for dreams.

It is an easy, quick read and I’d say Early years children would enjoy it mostly but it would also make a great book for young readers too. 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. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. Celebrate the 10th anniversary of How to Catch a Star with this new toddler-friendly board book edition! 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.Update: have seen some more of this author's work for slightly older children and appreciate the illustrations and the quirky style a bit better now. When my mum and/or dad dies, I'll be sure to not put my heart in a bottle and will, instead, accept those feelings of loss and pain. 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 of a boy who loved the stars so much, he decided to catch one of his very own.