Oliver Jeffers. Philomel, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-25737-7
In an exuberantly absurd tale that recalls the old woman who swallowed a fly, a boy named Floyd goes to ridiculous lengths to remove his kite from a tree. Floyd tosses his sneakers, then his cat, into the leafy branches, and when they get stuck, too,
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Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. Candlewick, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-9077-9
Jeffers (The Day the Crayons Quit) 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. “I am a child of...
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Oliver Jeffers, Author, Oliver Jeffers, Illustrator . Philomel $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-24503-9
This beguiling tale featuring the round-headed lad from Jeffers's debut book, How to Catch a Star
, begins, "Once there was a boy who found a penguin at his door." Enticing, spare text and watercolor pictures follow the earnest, red-and-w
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Oliver Jeffers, Author, Oliver Jeffers, Illustrator . Philomel $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-24749-1
This story, inventively painted in mixed media on discarded bindings, book covers and tattered, yellowed pages of paper, may earn Jeffers (Lost and Found) a reputation as an incredible book-recycling artist. Jeffers introduces a boy named Henry who...
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Oliver Jeffers, Author, Oliver Jeffers, Illustrator . Philomel $16.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-25074-3
Jeffers's (The Incredible Book Eating Boy
) arrestingly illustrated book begins with the creation of a spare watercolor world—a single, nameless boy on a deserted beach. Quickly the story takes a surprising turn: the boy finds an airplane in his...
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Oliver Jeffers, Author, Oliver Jeffers, Illustrator . Philomel $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-25097-2
Jeffers’s (The Incredible Book-Eating Boy
) forest creatures have dots for eyes and sticks for legs; they live in tidy holes in the ground, equipped with home offices and washing machines. Responsible citizens, they notice that trees in their...
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Oliver Jeffers, Author, Oliver Jeffers, Illustrator . Philomel $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-25452-9
When a small girl loses her father, her only parent (Jeffers represents the loss with the father's empty chair in a moonlit room), she decides “the best thing” is to put her heart in a bottle and hang it around her neck. All the...
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Oliver Jeffers. Philomel, $10.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-25767-4
First in a planned series, Jeffers’s (Stuck) small-scale fable is equal parts whimsy and skinny-tie sophistication. Low-key pencil drawings, sleek typography, and a smart layout deliver the sophistication, and the Hueys contribute the whimsy. Like...
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Oliver Jeffers. Philomel, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-16103-2
It won’t take readers long to see that Wilfred has moose problems. He tries hard to make Marcel the moose obey his many rules (“Rule 7 [subsection b]: Maintaining a certain proximity to home”), but Marcel is only vaguely interested in Wilfred. What...
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Oliver Jeffers. Philomel, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-25768-1
Jeffers’s first book about the Hueys quietly extolled the virtues of nonconformity; with equal subtlety (and a touch of dark humor) he explores disagreement in this sequel. “The thing about the Hueys,” Jeffers writes of his egg-shaped, stick-legged...
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Oliver Jeffers. Philomel, $26.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-399-16791-1
With wry humor, equally droll ink illustrations, and a solid dose of alliteration, Jeffers (the Hueys series) creates delightful mini-narratives for each letter of the alphabet. In the B story, "Burning a Bridge," the antagonistic relationship...
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Oliver Jeffers. Philomel, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-25770-4
As he did in 2014’s None the Number, Jeffers uses his bean-shaped Hueys for more concretely instructive aims in this playful exploration of basic opposites including up/down, big/small, and happy/sad. Ample visual humor brings entertainment value to
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Oliver Jeffers. Philomel, $24.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-593-11501-5
Fausto, a balding tyrant in a three-piece suit, wants it all. “You are mine,” he tells a flower. He declares ownership of a sheep, a tree, a field, a forest, and a lake. A mountain gives him some trouble, but when Fausto “put up such a fight you...
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Oliver Jeffers. Philomel, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-593-20675-1
In this standalone companion to Here We Are! that is dedicated to his daughter, Jeffers imagines a stream of fanciful projects that a father, sporting a wool hat, and his sailor dress–clad daughter might do together. Zooming in on her small hands,...
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Oliver Jeffers. Philomel, $27.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-593-46618-6
Decidedly unscary ghosts—the kind that look like sheets with holes for eyes—lurk in a house being searched by a green-skinned, pigtailed child in this novelty-leaning picture book. Welcoming the reader, the child begins, “I have heard... there’s a...
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Oliver Jeffers. Philomel, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-399-16789-8
"These are the things I think you need to know," writes Jeffers (A Child of Books), dedicating this contemplative and heartfelt book to his young son. Each spread highlights aspects of this planet or life on it: the solar system, people and animals,
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Oliver Jeffers. Philomel, $26.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-593-62155-4
Bestseller Jeffers (Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth) returns with another contemplative graphic narrative about the need to share the planet compassionately and responsibly. In painted two-page spreads, colorful human figures explore a
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Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. Candlewick, $18.99 (56p) ISBN 978-1-5362-3550-0
Prior collaborators Jeffers and Winston used type as a dynamic visual element in A Child of Books, and it takes center stage too in this title—a quick-moving tale about a dictionary, “never quite sure of herself” among other books’ clear arcs. When...
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