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. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Oliver Jeffers offers a simple, childlike tale of reaching for the stars, and emerging with a friend. The children in my setting loved the story, they are big fans of the nursery rhyme Twinkle twinkle little star, so I knew they would be interested in this.

Every night he watched them sailing in the sky outside his bedroom window and dreamed of making friends with them, playing games of hide-and-seek together. His distinctive paintings have been exhibited in multiple cities, including the National Portrait Gallery in London and the Brooklyn Museum New York. 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.

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 use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. An inspirational story from internationally bestselling, multi-prize-winning picture book creator Oliver Jeffers.

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. 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. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites.It made me realise that while losing someone is, indeed, horrible but shutting yourself away in a protective shell doesn't help the situation nor is it something that person would ever want.