A Child of Books

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You guys were so fab and Dawn was such a lovely presence in the schools - I will absolutely be in touch next time I'm in your neck of the woods.

I have even talked the head into a little revamp of the library so that we can display them properly!

Through forests of fairy tales and across mountains of make-believe, the two travel together on a fantastical journey that unlocks the boy’s imagination.

It is a lovey story and very focused on a love of books, which is something that we both hope to instill into our child. Oliver Jeffers is a Northern Irish artist and author-illustrator of children’s picture books, including Lost and Found and Here We Are. Your words, like your reviews, bring books to life and give them a voice before the front cover is even turned. In 2013, Jeffers illustrated the vinyl cover (a drawing of Nelson Mandela) for the U2 song "Ordinary Love".There are clever images such as a photo of a paper forms a sail for a raft, spines of books (where you can see the paper pages) form trees in a forest. 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. 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.

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. New York Times best-selling author-illustrator Oliver Jeffers and fine artist Sam Winston’s lyrical picture book inspires readers of all ages to create, to question, to explore, and to imagine. My daughter may not have loved it quite so much but it had provoked thought - I suspect she will continue to be intrigued by it. Combining elegant images by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston's typographical landscapes shaped from excerpts of children's classics and lullabies, A Child of Books is a stunning prose poem on the rewards of reading and sharing stories--an immersive and unforgettable reading experience that readers will want to pass on to others.

lullabies, A Child of Books is a stunning prose poem on the rewards of reading and sharing stories — an immersive and unforgettable reading experience that readers will want to pass on to others. Use this wholly original celebration of the story as a jumping-off point for conversations about art and writing. 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.

It is both an invitation to succumb to the heady pleasures of reading, and a work of great beauty and imagination. It was such a pleasure to meet you both, and I really appreciated how smoothly and professionally you ran everything.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.