Join us for an event with globally-renowned artist and internationally bestselling author, Oliver Jeffers, discussing his long-awaited brand new picture book, Where to Hide a Star featuring his much-loved characters, the boy and the penguin. The new book's publication will be a pinnacle moment in a year that celebrates the 20th anniversary of Oliver's debut picture book, How to Catch a Star.
Oliver was first discovered in a pile of unsolicited manuscripts, and his highly acclaimed debut, How to Catch a Star, was published by HarperCollins Children's Books in 2004. It was the first in a series of critically acclaimed books featuring boy and the penguin, including Lost and Found, The Way Back Home and Up and Down. Since then, he has become a worldwide phenomenon. The Boy and the Penguin books have sold over 1.2 million copies in the UK alone, with overall sales of Oliver's publishing now exceeding 18 million copies worldwide and translations in forty-nine languages.
Jeffers' engagements and practice are truly International in scope. His critically acclaimed picture books have been translated into over fifty languages and sold over 14 millions copies worldwide. His original artwork has been exhibited at such institutions as the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Jeffers has been the recipient of numerous awards, in eluding a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books Award, Bologna Rigazzi Aware, an Emmy award for Studio AKA and Apple's adaptation of Here We Are, and an MBE from Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth for Special Services to the Arts.
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