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Books By Oliver Jeffers - Author

Oliver Jeffers has won numerous awards and delighted millions of kids and parents alike with his beautifully hand illustrated stories. 

Jeffers's picture books are wonderfully accessible. They explore themes of friendship, loneliness, independence and imagination. He has written and illustrated, or "made", as he prefers to put it, five hugely successful picture books. The first three - the "boy books" - feature a small boy who sets off on a series of daunting quests. How to Catch a Star (2004), the first of them, was inspired by a Brer Rabbit story he read as a child. In Lost and Found (2005) the boy heroically rows to the south pole for the sake of an unhappy penguin, and in The Way Back Home (2007) he rescues a young Martian whose spaceship has crashed on the moon.

The Heart and the Bottle is wholly compelling for the importance of its message and the brilliance of how that is conveyed in words and pictures. This is a book to return to time and time again says Julia Eccleshare, Lovereading4kids’ editorial expert.

Oliver Jeffers

Jeffers was born in Australia in 1977 and brought up in Belfast. He studied visual communication at the University of Ulster, and graduated in 2001. Jeffers became passionate about making picture books when he began to understand the subtle relationship between words and pictures – ‘that was what excited me. Until I got really involved, I hadn't realised how just a few words can totally change the meaning of a picture.’ Now living in New York, he works as a painter, designer, printmaker and installation artist, but remains very busy making picture books.

Did you know?

Oliver loves plastic food, suitcase handles and Elvis, and has developed a bizarre habit of endlessly writing lists he never reads. He remains hell bent on travelling all over the world.

You can see Oliver talking about his artwork in this video:

We have a super set of Oliver Jeffers activity pages to download :

Once Upon an Alphabet colouring in.

The Day the Crayons Came Home maze.

Incredible Book-eating Boy wordsearch.

Stuck wordsearch.

Photo credit Caroline Tompkins

Author's Website: https://www.oliverjeffers.com/

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Lost and Found Jigsaw Book

Oliver Jeffers

Board book

Pre-order. 28th August 2025

£13.49 £14.99

Here We Are Activity Book

Oliver Jeffers

Paperback

Pre-order. 22nd May 2025

£7.19 £7.99

Where to Hide a Star

Oliver Jeffers

Hardback

In Stock

£13.49 £14.99

How to Catch a Star

Oliver Jeffers

Paperback

In Stock

£8.09 £8.99

What We’ll Build

Oliver Jeffers

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

Begin Again

Oliver Jeffers

Hardback

In Stock

£18.00 £20.00

Here We Are

Oliver Jeffers

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

Meanwhile Back on Earth

Oliver Jeffers

Hardback

In Stock

£15.29 £16.99

Your Life On Earth

Oliver Jeffers

Hardback

In Stock

£13.49 £14.99

Book of Animals

Oliver Jeffers

Board book

Not Available

Book of Numbers

Oliver Jeffers

Board book

In Stock

£6.29 £6.99

What We'll Build

Oliver Jeffers

Hardback

In Stock

£13.49 £14.99

The Fate of Fausto

Oliver Jeffers

Hardback

In Stock

£18.00 £20.00

A Little Alphabet

Oliver Jeffers

Board book

Temporarily Out Of Stock

£7.19 £7.99

An Alphabet of Stories

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

An Alphabet

Oliver Jeffers

Hardback

Not Available

The Incredible Book Eating Boy

Oliver Jeffers

Hardback

In Stock

£11.69 £12.99

What's the Opposite?

Oliver Jeffers

Paperback

In Stock

£8.09 £8.99

A Little Stuck

Oliver Jeffers

Board book

In Stock

£8.09 £8.99

Once Upon an Alphabet

Oliver Jeffers

Hardback

In Stock

£18.00 £20.00

It Wasn't Me

Oliver Jeffers

Paperback

In Stock

£8.09 £8.99

Lost and Found

Oliver Jeffers

Board book

In Stock

£8.09 £8.99

The Way Back Home

Oliver Jeffers

Board book

In Stock

£8.09 £8.99

This Moose Belongs to Me

Oliver Jeffers

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

The New Jumper

Oliver Jeffers

Paperback

In Stock

£8.09 £8.99

Stuck

Oliver Jeffers

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

Up and Down

Oliver Jeffers

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

The Heart and the Bottle

Oliver Jeffers

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

The Great Paper Caper

Oliver Jeffers

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99