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I will get through it, and when I do, I'll make sure to treasure every memory I have of them and tell myself that they are not truly dead, because they'll live long in the memories I have of them.Celebrate the 10th anniversary of How to Catch a Star with this new toddler-friendly board book edition!

They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. It made me realise that while losing someone is, indeed, horrible but shutting yourself away in a protective shell doesn't help the situation nor is it something that person would ever want.He started creating children's books when people wouldn't believe what happened to him unless he pretended he was telling 'stories'. 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. From figurative painting, collage and installation to illustration and award winning picture-books, Oliver Jeffers practice takes many forms.

Personally I wasn't sure about the illustrations, they're quite stylised, but this book has quickly become one of my son's favourites. I could see this as a good way to teach children about rather heavy subjects such as depression, anxiety, loss and mourning. Oliver Jeffers is a creative, brilliant author that really shows his amazing imagination through his books. Not sure how to explain it best: the prose is so nicely paced and there's a really good ratio of illustrations to words (more pictures than words), yet there's still a proper narrative to the book.Oliver Jeffers is a Northern Irish artist and author-illustrator of children’s picture books, including Lost and Found and Here We Are. An inspirational story of a boy who loved the stars so much, he decided to catch one of his very own. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. An inspirational story from internationally bestselling, multi-prize-winning picture book creator Oliver Jeffers. Finally, just when the boy is ready to give up, he learns that sometimes things aren't where, or what, we expect them to be.

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. So one day, he decided to catch a star of his very own… From the shining talent of Oliver Jeffers, winner of the Bisto Award, this inspirational, glittering story captures the magic of reaching for dreams. Every night he watched the stars in the sky from his bedroom window and dreamed of how he could be their friend and how they could play hide-and-go-seek together.Every night he watched them sailing in the sky outside his bedroom window and dreamed of making friends with them, playing games of hide-and-seek together.