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Oliver Jeffers: Maurice Sendak's jumper and me
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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Where the Wild Things Are (left) and How to Catch a Star There is a reason the character of the Boy in my first picture books wears a red and white stripy jumper, and that reason is Maurice Sendak . Or, more specifically, that reason is an homage to
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Sponsored Feature: Oliver Jeffers wins Specsavers junior book award
Belfast :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
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Friday December 07 2012 Belfast writer Oliver Jeffers has scooped the Specsavers Children's Book of the Year Junior Award for his book This Moose Belongs to Me'. The award was presented to Jeffers at the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards 2012, held
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Roald Dahl funny prize: David Walliams scores shortlist hat-trick
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
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Murdo Macleod Comedian and Channel swimmer David Walliams has made the shortlist for the Roald Dahl funny prize for the third time in five years with his tale of a grandmother who behaves in unexpected ways, Gangsta Granny . The Little Britain star
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Download and colour an Oliver Jeffers's Huey character
London :: United Kingdom | 12 months ago
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Download your very own Huey, using the link at the bottom of the page, and make him or her different too. Send in your coloured-in and accessorised Huey to childrens.books@guardian.co.uk, with Huey in the subject line, and we'll feature them in a
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'The Way Back Home' is an imaginative treat
Belfast :: PA :: USA | 1 year ago
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What is it about wardrobes and closets that so fascinate children's authors in the U.K.? Oliver Jeffers' "The Way Back Home" opens with a boy finding an airplane inside his closet. Without hesitation (and apparently without checking the fuel tank),
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The Incredible Book Eating Boy
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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Hardly surprising, since each five-minute show has an audience of just one person, who watches it from inside a small black box, with the puppeteers dancing round the outside...Henry gets smarter and smarter as he eats more books, but finds that it
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Got a ghost story? Forthcoming book to explore haunted Fairhaven
Fairhaven :: MA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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tool goes here Taimi Dunn Gorman's apparent run-ins with a supernatural presence while she owned the Doggie Diner prompted her to write "Haunted Fairhaven," a walking-tour brochure that has remained a popular handout for the past decade. Now Gorman
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The Bookworm of Edwards' 2011 best books for younger readers
Denver :: CO :: USA | over 1 year ago
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The Bookworm of Edwards book store displays its Christmas picks for kids. Dominique Taylor dtaylor@vaildaily.com The staff at The Bookworm of Edwards put together a list of its best books of 2011 recently. From toddlers to teens, here are their picks
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Favourite festival moments: Mal Peet
London :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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My eight year-old friend Oliver was fine with that, although I thought he might find me a bit heavy. The auditorium's proportions are slightly less generous than a Travelodge wardrobe...Three shuttered windows at eye level open and close in an
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