Oliver Jeffers is a visual artist and author working in painting, bookmaking, illustration, collage, performance and sculpture. Curiosity and humor are underlying themes throughout Oliver's practice as an artist and storyteller. While investigating the ways the human mind understands its world, his work also functions as comic relief in the face of futility. Jeffers’ engagements and practice are truly international in scope.
Favorite children’s picture books by Oliver Jeffers:
The Incredible Book Eating Boy. Henry loves books. In fact, he literally devours them.And the more he eats, the smarter he gets.
The Day the Crayons Quit Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he only finds letters, all saying the same thing: We quit!
Up and Down In Up & Down, the penguin (who we first met in Lost & Found) dreams of flying – he has wings, after all – but nothing seems to be working.
Stuck When Floyd’s kite gets stuck in a tree, he’s determined to get it out. But how?
The Great Paper Caper The animals’ homes are disappearing. Tree by tree, the forest is being cut down. Clues!
How to Catch a Star In this whimsical picture book, a young stargazer decides he wants to catch a star. He ventures out at sunrise since he believes the stars will be “tired from being up in the sky all night.”
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