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Oliver jeffers penguin book6/22/2023 ![]() “The kids’ books came very much as an accident,” he says his ambitions had always been in fine arts. Jeffers says he did not set out to become a children’s book writer and illustrator – not at all. ![]() The effect of it all is exceptionally inviting, to children and adults alike. In all his books, images are accompanied by Jeffers’s distinctive handwriting: deceptively awkward-looking, like the work of a schoolboy whose natural chicken-scratch hand is being forced into grammar-school cursive, though the capitalization of key words makes it clear how deliberately Jeffers composes the words alongside the image. The little girl who takes the reader through A Child of Books wears an uncomplicated sailor’s pinafore, and her plaited hair is only lightly sketched out with a few lines. ![]() His figures might appear, at first, roughly hewn in their simplicity. Describing Jeffers’s art style is naturally difficult, in a dancing-about-architecture sort of way. ![]()
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