![]() ![]() In addition to illustrating his own writing, Jeffers has illustrated many books by other authors, most notably Drew Daywalt’s bestselling Crayons series. ![]() Jeffers has also crafted a number of standalone picture books, such as The Heart and the Bottle (2010), Stuck (2011), The Fate of Fausto (2019) and There’s a Ghost in this House (2021) as well as producing Here We Are (2017), What We’ll Build (2020) and Meanwhile Back on Earth (2022) which provide beautiful visual guides to growing up in a diverse and fascinating world. Two more stories in the series- The Way Back Home and Up and Down – were published in 20 respectively. No candy canes or Santa without Red, no snow. ![]() Happy Easter from The Crayons belongs in every Easter basket. When Green Crayon claims that green is the only color for Christmas, other crayons let him know that there would be no Christmas without them either. Lost and Found won both the Nestle Smarties Book Prize Gold Medal and the Blue Peter Book Award and made Jeffers name. Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers and all our favorite crayons are back for some Easter excitement. ![]() This was the first picture book in the Boy series and was swiftly followed by Lost and Found, a heartwarming story in which the Boy discovers a lost penguin and attempts to return it to its home. It is as an author-illustrator of children’s picture books that he is best known, however, producing his debut, How to Catch a Star in 2004. Born in Western Australia but growing up in Belfast and now resident in Brooklyn, Jeffers is a visual artist who has worked in various media, from figurative painting to sculpture and performance. ![]()
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