The beauty and power of children’s books is the subject of A Child of Books, which reads as much as a poetic manifesto as it does a story. There are drawings of the young girls and boy along with printed images or photographs and actual text making up pictures. C., MoMA NYC and Stanford University, among many others, all hold his artist’s books in their permanent collections. 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.

The main idea of the story is about how reading a book can unlock a world of imagination but this idea won't make sense to children who just haven't had that experience yet. 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. The very clever pictures though are when a shape is formed just from pieces of text, such as a whole cave or a monster made up of lots of text printed on top of itself, a whole sea of words. It’s a fantastic independent book seller that will actually be responsive and select appropriate books for you. Yourself and Bob are much cherished in our booky world and I personally really appreciate everything that you do.In this inspiring, lyrical tale about the rewards of reading and sharing stories, a little girl sails her raft “across a sea of words” to arrive at the house of a small boy. 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.

I have even talked the head into a little revamp of the library so that we can display them properly! 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. Combining elegant illustrations by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston’s astonishing typographical landscapes , this is the perfect picture book for Christmas. Bronnie is so lovely with the boys and we also felt that having a man enthusing about the books set a great example. 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.When a little girl sails her raft across a sea of words to meet a boy, she takes him on an adventure of imagination.