Oliver Jeffers, born in Australia, 1977, was raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. He is a visual artista, a profesional illustrator, autor to children’s books and a storyteller.
How wonderful his children’s books are!
The illustrations are cared for to the tiniest detail, and a perfect technique handling is visible alongside a greater creativity. His stories are full of tenderness, humour and sensibility, all with a few thorough messages.
His 18 books, awarded several times and translated to no less than 45 languages, are authentic pieces of art, some of them the most beautiful among those which decorate our shelfs at LINGUAE, our pocked-sized bookshop.
His original artworks were exposed in the Brooklyn Museum of New York, in the Irish Museum of Modern Art of Dublin, in the National Portrait Gallery of London and in the Palais Auersperg of Vienna.
Amongst the numerous awards there the New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award, the Bologna Rigazzi Award, An Irish Book Award, and the United Kingdom Literary Association Award.
His last book was published in October 2020. You can find it at LINGUAE, your online shop!
"What we'll build - Plans for our toguether futur" tells us about a father who envelops his daughter with love and gives her the stability needed to make her dreams come true. Together, they use their own special tools and get to work to prepare for a shared life. They build up memories, a home to keep them safe and the love to keep them warm. A glorious book about the pure potential of what is to come, whether good or bad, and a special relationship between father and daughter.
At LINGUAE you can find almost all of his books: How to Catch a Star", "The Fate of Fausto", "Up and Down", "The Incredible Book Eating Boy", "The Day the Crayons Came Home", "An Alphabet of Stories", "A Child of Books", "Lost and Found", "The Way Back Home", "Once there was a Boy", "The heart and the Bottle", "Stuck", "These Moose belongs to me" .
Find out about Oliver Jeffers’s children’s books in this link.
