A wonderful book, beautiful illustrations and my 2 year old insists on it being read every night before he goes to bed.

They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic.Celebrate the 10th anniversary of How to Catch a Star with this new toddler-friendly board book edition! 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. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners.

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. 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. His outstanding talent has been recognised by several high-profile awards, including the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize Gold Award. Oliver Jeffers is a creative, brilliant author that really shows his amazing imagination through his books. 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.In 2013, Jeffers illustrated the vinyl cover (a drawing of Nelson Mandela) for the U2 song "Ordinary Love". 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. 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. The beautiful child-like innocence and awe we used to have is something he perfectly portrays in his writing and illustrations.

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.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. Oliver Jeffers is a Northern Irish artist and author-illustrator of children’s picture books, including Lost and Found and Here We Are. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 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.

From figurative painting, collage and installation to illustration and award winning picture-books, Oliver Jeffers practice takes many forms. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.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. It has wonderful illustrations and text which both hold the attention of the children and from which they can follow independently after listening to the story. 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.