Delightful chaos ensues when a young boy gets his kite stuck
in a tree in this laugh-out-loud new picture book from
award-winning, internationally best-selling author-illustrator
Oliver Jeffers! Floyd gets his kite stuck up a tree. He throws up
his shoe to shift it, but that gets stuck too. So he throws up his
other shoe and that gets stuck, along with...a ladder, a pot of
paint, the kitchen sink, an orang-utan and a whale, amongst other
things! Will Floyd ever get his kite back? A hilarious book with a
wonderful surprise ending.
關於作者：
Oliver Jeffers is an artist, designer, illustrator and writer
from Northern Ireland. He graduated from the University of Ulster
with a degree in Visual Communication.
From figurative painting and installation, to illustration and
picture-book making, his work has been exhibited in New York,
Dublin, London, Sydney, Washington DC, and Belfast.
He is widely known for his picture books for children, published
by HarperCollins UK and Penguin USA. How to Catch a Star debuted in
2004 to critical acclaim, and Lost and Found 2005, won the
Nestles Smarties Book Prize Gold Medal 2006, the Blue Peter Book
Award 2006 and was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal the
same year. The Incredible Book Eating Boy 2007 won the Irish Book
Awards Children''s Book of the Year, and his fourth Book The Way
Back Home was released in September 2007 and The Great Paper Caper
will be publlished in September 2008.
Jeffers'' style of illustration uses mixed medium and is
recognised for its subtle narrative and use of space in
composition. As a freelance illustrator he has worked for clients
such as Orange UK, Lavazza, Sony PSP, RCA Records, Starbucks,
candycollective, Blanka, Graphic, the Vacuum and the Irish
Times.
Jeffers'' artwork consists of figurative painting executed on
either canvas or three dimensional objects, both found and made.
His most recent solo show Additional Information, Belfast December
2006 studied the balance between form and content by drawing
parallels between the arts and sciences, in which figurative oil
paintings were over laid with mathematical equations.
As a co-founder of the art collective OAR, along with Rory
Jeffers, Mac Premo and Duke Riley, their exhibitions include 9 Days
in Belfast, book and the award winning BUILDING.
In 2007, Jeffers was the official World Book Day
Ilustrator.
Lost and Found became Oliver''s first book to made into animation
by London based Studio AKA, screening on Christmas Eve 2008 on
Channel 4.
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