Oliver Jeffers is a highly acclaimed talent in picture books. He
graduated from The University of Ulster in 2001 with First Class
honours and has since exhibited his paintings around the world. His
outstanding talent has already been recognised by several
high-profile awards, including the Nestle Children's Book Prize
Gold Award, the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award and the Irish
Children's Book of the Year.
www.oliverjeffers.com
"Stuck is perhaps the most impressive picture book published this year… Brilliantly silly." Daily Telegraph Praise for The Incredible Book Eating Boy: ‘Mouth-wateringly irresistible’ The Guardian ‘This is a book that children will devour’ The Observer Praise for Lost and Found: ‘A heart-warming story’ The Guardian Praise for How to Catch a Star: ‘The best recent picture book by light years, is stylishly spellbinding.’ Telegraph ‘Hail to new talent… If only all picture books could be this good.’ The Bookseller Praise for The Heart and the Bottle: ‘Profoundly moving’ The Irish Times
"Stuck is perhaps the most impressive picture book published this year... Brilliantly silly." Daily Telegraph
Praise for The Incredible Book Eating Boy:
'Mouth-wateringly irresistible' The Guardian
'This is a book that children will devour' The Observer
Praise for Lost and Found:
'A heart-warming story' The Guardian
Praise for How to Catch a Star:
'The best recent picture book by light years, is stylishly spellbinding.' Telegraph
'Hail to new talent... If only all picture books could be this good.' The Bookseller
Praise for The Heart and the Bottle:
'Profoundly moving' The Irish Times
PreS-Gr 2-Floyd has a problem: his kite is stuck in a tree. Employing kid logic, he throws his favorite shoe to dislodge the wayward object-to no avail. The imaginative hero fetches a host of other items: a friend's bicycle, the kitchen sink, a long-distance lorry, the house across the street, a curious whale ("in the wrong place at the wrong time"). Alas, each item joins its predecessors, lodged in the foliage. Jeffers's deadpan descriptions and the ludicrous scale of Floyd's selections are laugh-out-loud hilarious. As the child carries the house on his head, his neighbor leans out the window, commenting, simply: "Floyd?" Then there is the incongruity between expectation and reality. When he retrieves a ladder, firemen, and finally a saw, readers will surely expect climbing or cutting, but no. Everything gets pitched up, including the light bulb that hovers over the child's head, just before he achieves success. The tree, which continually changes color (and therefore, mood), is a dense, scribbled, layered specimen, perfect for harboring the odd assemblage. The text appears to be hand-lettered, as if written by a youngster. In concert with the quirky, mixed-media caricatures, supported by stick legs, it yields a childlike aesthetic sure to tickle the funny bones of its target audience-and of the adults who share the story with youngsters.-Wendy Lukehart, Washington DC Public Library (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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