Your words, like your reviews, bring books to life and give them a voice before the front cover is even turned. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. I am happy that the text is different between copies making it an entirely new experience reading each of them! Combining elegant images by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston's typographical landscapes shaped from excerpts of children's classics and lullabies, A Child of Books is a stunning prose poem on the rewards of reading and sharing stories--an immersive and unforgettable reading experience that readers will want to pass on to others.

Therefore, we step aboard, to watch as we embark, to realise the substance and meaning of our route and then the parts that might be included on our travels. Elegant illustrations by Oliver Jeffers are accompanied by Sam Winston’s astonishing typographical landscapes, beautifully shaped from excerpts of children’s classics including Treasure Island, Little Women and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, creating a gorgeous gift book perfect for readers of all ages. The very clever pictures though are when a shape is formed just from pieces of text, such as a whole cave or a monster made up of lots of text printed on top of itself, a whole sea of words. Jeffers and Winston's first collaboration is a celebration of the child's world, illustrated in sumptuous double-page spreads featuring explosions of images borrowed from unforgettable sources. When a little girl sails her raft across a sea of words to meet a boy, she takes him on an adventure of imagination.This text in the pictures comes from famous classic tales such as Hansel and Gretel and Alice in Wonderland. It is a lovey story and very focused on a love of books, which is something that we both hope to instill into our child. Furthermore, we offer that this glorious book of such strength and originality, is an ideal gift for readers of all ages. Elegant illustrations by Oliver Jeffers are accompanied by Sam Winston’s astonishing typographical landscapes, beautifully shaped from excerpts of children’s classics including Treasure Island, Little Women and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

I was at my last school for 4 years and we had ********* book fairs every term – and every term, I was disappointed by the narrow range of books. Yourself and Bob are much cherished in our booky world and I personally really appreciate everything that you do.This delightful treasure hunt through children's literature will have you digging through your bookshelves, hunting for forgotten phrases and making room among the tomes for this book. lullabies, A Child of Books is a stunning prose poem on the rewards of reading and sharing stories — an immersive and unforgettable reading experience that readers will want to pass on to others. I have even talked the head into a little revamp of the library so that we can display them properly! The beauty and power of children’s books is the subject of A Child of Books, which reads as much as a poetic manifesto as it does a story.

Use this wholly original celebration of the story as a jumping-off point for conversations about art and writing. For example, within an ocean going boat, we are peppered by titles, great and wonderful books that shape us and build the traveling experience. From New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Oliver Jeffers, creator of The Day the Crayons Quit and Lost and Found, and typographical artist Sam Winston comes an exceptional new picture book. It means, that rather like the intricacies of a pop up book such as My First Pop-Up Mythological Monsters, Sam Winston and Oliver Jeffers engineer us . My daughter may not have loved it quite so much but it had provoked thought - I suspect she will continue to be intrigued by it.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The story is delightful, but looking for words from well known classics which form the pictures is also fun (eg words from Shelley's Frankenstein form the monster) A celebration of the imagination that knows no boundaries.