Oliver Jeffers is the author-illustrator of many books for
children, including Once Upon an Alphabet, which won a Boston
Globe-Horn Book Award, and Lost and Found, which was a Nestlé
Children’s Book Prize Gold Medal winner. He is also the illustrator
of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Day the Crayons Quit and
its follow-up, The Day the Crayons Came Home, both written by Drew
Daywalt. Oliver Jeffers lives in Brooklyn.
Sam Winston is a fine artist whose work has been featured in
many special collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern
Art in New York, the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, the
Tate Galleries in London, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in
London. He works and lives in London.
A fresh and fascinating collaboration between two gifted
masters.
—The New York Times Book Review
Jeffers and Winston’s first collaboration is a celebration of the
child’s world, illustrated in sumptuous double-page spreads
featuring explosions of images borrowed from unforgettable
sources...Every one of its elements—the haunting prose poem
executed in hand- lettered words; the pictures done in watercolor,
pencil, and digital collage; and the objects built from words
borrowed from classic stories—all work together toward a richly
harmonious whole. An irresistible invitation to read.
—Booklist (starred review)
Jeffers and Winston's mixed-media artwork, an inventive combination
of watercolor, pencil, and digital collage, elicits strong notice
from readers. Jeffers' uneven, hand-lettered text contrasts
dramatically with Winston's digitally manipulated lines of classic
prose...An ingenious, confident, and pretty cool exploration of
literary delight.
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
A gorgeous, innovative musing on the power of storytelling. A
nameless young girl who calls herself a child of books narrates in
lyrical, spellbinding verse. Some, she says, have forgotten the
importance of stories, but she finds a boy and introduces him to
her world, a land created through a marriage of Jeffers’s evocative
art and Winston’s masterly use of typography...Use this wholly
original celebration of the story as a jumping-off point for
conversations about art and writing. A masterpiece.
—School Library Journal (starred review)
Jeffers and typographic artist Winton collaborate on a hymn to the
power of imagination, in which witty pen-and-ink drawings meet
manipulated blocks of type, composed of passages from children’s
classics...the energy of the images bursts from the pages, “for
imagination is free.”
—Publishers Weekly
This delightful treasure hunt through children's literature will
have you digging through your bookshelves, hunting for forgotten
phrases and making room among the tomes for this book.
—BookPage
This haunting mixed-media art book will appeal to literature lovers
of all ages.
—New York Post
Each illustration cleverly incorporates text from classic works of
literature into the art...This is fantastically imaginative and
smart book that is sure to engage children of all ages.
—Cool Mom Picks (blog)
It's a lyrical picture book that celebrates the power of
imagination...What a great way to stretch the imagination and teach
reading all at once!
—Parents.com
Literature lovers won't want to miss A Child of Books by Oliver
Jeffers and Sam Winston.
—Parents magazine
As masterful as a book can be in extolling the richness that
reading brings to our lives, "A Child of Books" is a glorious
offering.
—Reading Eagle (from Kendal Rautzhan)
Kids and adults alike will marvel at the artistry and the message
of A Child of Books, that we can build our own houses of invention
and creativity where all are welcome, "for imagination is
free."
—Omnivoracious (blog)
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