Meet the author

Oliver Jeffers.

Writer & illustrator · United Kingdom · b. 1977

Oliver Jeffers: Northern Irish picture-book maker whose spare, hand-lettered books — Lost and Found, How to Catch a Star, Here We Are — are quietly philosophical, warmly funny, and a reliable gift-shelf staple for ages 3–8.

Oliver Jeffers is a Northern Irish artist and picture-book maker, born in Australia in 1977 and raised in Belfast, whose hand-lettered, slightly melancholic style has become one of the defining visual voices in twenty-first-century children's publishing. He both writes and illustrates the majority of his work, with breakthrough titles including Lost and Found, How to Catch a Star, Stuck, The Heart and the Bottle, Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth, and Once Upon an Alphabet. He also collaborates with Drew Daywalt as illustrator on The Day the Crayons Quit series. Jeffers' picture books are warm without being sentimental, philosophical without being heavy, and reward repeated reading. A reliable hit for families who want artful, quietly thoughtful picture books with real emotional weight.