How to Catch a Star

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Personally I wasn't sure about the illustrations, they're quite stylised, but this book has quickly become one of my son's favourites. In 2013, Jeffers illustrated the vinyl cover (a drawing of Nelson Mandela) for the U2 song "Ordinary Love". He graduated from The University of Ulster in 2001 with First Class honours and has since exhibited his paintings around the world. Celebrate the 10th anniversary of How to Catch a Star with this new toddler-friendly board book edition! If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

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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. 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. 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.

Oliver Jeffers offers a simple, childlike tale of reaching for the stars, and emerging with a friend. His outstanding talent has been recognised by several high-profile awards, including the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize Gold Award.

At an early age, Oliver developed an appreciation of five-letter words and his loves include plastic food, wheels, suitcase handles, Elvis and, despite not having met one yet, polar bears. I could see this as a good way to teach children about rather heavy subjects such as depression, anxiety, loss and mourning. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.