How to Catch a Star

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He graduated from The University of Ulster in 2001 with First Class honours and has since exhibited his paintings around the world. Celebrate the 10th anniversary of How to Catch a Star with this new toddler-friendly board book edition! Personally I wasn't sure about the illustrations, they're quite stylised, but this book has quickly become one of my son's favourites. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners. And I don't think I would have been as lucky as finding someone "small and still curious about the world" like she had.

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. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. Oliver Jeffers is a Northern Irish artist and author-illustrator of children’s picture books, including Lost and Found and Here We Are. His outstanding talent has been recognised by several high-profile awards, including the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize Gold Award.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 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.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. 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. I could see this as a good way to teach children about rather heavy subjects such as depression, anxiety, loss and mourning. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. Update: have seen some more of this author's work for slightly older children and appreciate the illustrations and the quirky style a bit better now.

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His distinctive paintings have been exhibited in multiple cities, including the National Portrait Gallery in London and the Brooklyn Museum New York. From figurative painting, collage and installation to illustration and award winning picture-books, Oliver Jeffers practice takes many forms. 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.

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. 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. Finally, just when the boy is ready to give up, he learns that sometimes things aren't where, or what, we expect them to be. He started creating children's books when people wouldn't believe what happened to him unless he pretended he was telling 'stories'.A wonderful book, beautiful illustrations and my 2 year old insists on it being read every night before he goes to bed. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.