Drew Daywalt (text) & Oliver Jeffers (artwork) (HarperCollins Children’s Books) The crayons from The Day the Crayons Quit (winner of the 2014 Red House Children’s Book Award) have had a change of heart and after their wild (or not so wild) adventures, they are desperate to get back to Duncan, despite his rather indifferent behaviour towards …
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Oliver Jeffers
A picturebook a week: How to Catch A Star
Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins Children’s Books) Very few illustrators have caught the hearts of those in the Library Mice household quite like Oliver Jeffers has. We have been fans for ever, and I mean ALL of us. We have laughed at cried at all his picturebooks. We even travelled all the way to London just so …
PICTURE BOOK CAROUSEL: some more gems from 2012
I have not had time to dedicate half as much time to reviewing books as I would have liked this year, but here are a few more that I definitely want to mention before the year is out! The Paper DollsJulia Donaldson (text) & Rebecca Cobb (illustrations)(Macmillan Children’s Books) The Paper Dolls is the lyrical …
PICTURE BOOK CAROUSEL: Vive la Différence!
Two picture books on individuality, diversity, and acceptance, yet two very different stories. Which one will be your favourite? Bugs in a BlanketBeatrice Alemagna“Au pays des petits poux”, translated by Anthea Bell(Phaidon Press) In an old blanket live a whole colony of bugs. But each little bug lives in its own little hole, alone, with …
Stuck
Oliver Jeffers(HarperCollins Children’s Books) What do you do when your kite gets stuck up a tree? When plaid-shirt-clad Floyd finds himself in this situation, he decides to throw his shoe to try to dislodge it. When that doen’t work, he throws the other one, then a cat, a ladder and a variety of other items, each more …
Noah Barleywater Runs Away
John Boyne with artwork by Oliver Jeffers(David Fickling Books) Eight year-old Noah is running away. Running away from what, we are not sure yet but as dawn slowly peeking behind the night, he leaves his house and his sleeping parents behind and takes to the road. On his way many odd things seem to happen …
Up and Down
Oliver Jeffers(HarperCollins Children’s Books) The boy and the penguin from Lost and Found return in this brand new adventure. The two are still the best of friends and love doing everything together. But there is something that Penguin feels he needs to learn by himself. He wants to learn to fly. As readers, young and old, …
The Heart and The Bottle
Oliver Jeffers (Harper Collins Children’s Books) A little girl, who is thirsty for knowledge and in awe of how the world works, shares a very special relationship with her grandfather. When he dies, she is confronted with his empty chair and a sense of loss that she cannot start to comprehend. Finding herself unable to …