This year marks the 20th anniversary of How to Catch a Star, the debut picture book by Oliver Jeffers that launched his remarkable career in children's literature. Originally discovered in a pile ...

“I am a child of... 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 ...

So begins How to Catch a Star, Oliver Jeffers’s best-selling, multi-translated story of a small boy who sets out to catch a star and make it his friend. Like the protagonists of his burgeoning ...

It is easy to recognise the characters of Oliver Jeffers's picture ... books he has written since How to Catch a Star was first published 10 years ago. Jeffers began making picture books by ...

Oliver kicks off the year as ... In the summer, the stage adaptation of How to Catch a Star will run at the Polka Theatre launching in July. Jeffers said: “I always said I would never make ...

In the unlikely event that anyone needs evidence of the inexhaustible creative energy and versatility of Oliver Jeffers, whose books have sold 12 million copies worldwide and have been translated ...