Oliver Jeffers by Martin Salisbury - ISBN: 9780500028155
Hardcover
Explore the extraordinary life and art of visual storyteller Oliver Jeffers.

Oliver Jeffers

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  • Hardcover

    112 pages

  • Release Date

    27 May 2025

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Summary

An overview of the life and work of Oliver Jeffers, the Belfast-raised illustrator, bookmaker, painter, designer, campaigner and global superstar of the world of visual communication

A phenomenon of 21st-century bookmaking, Oliver Jeffers has carved an extraordinary career that shows no sign of slowing. Still only in his forties, he has published an array of hugely popular books, both as illustrator and author-illustrator. This overview of his life and work - so far -…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780500028155
ISBN-10:050002815X
Author:Martin Salisbury
Publisher:Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint:Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:112
Release Date:27 May 2025
Weight:516g
Dimensions:18mm x 208mm x 253mm
Series:The Illustrators
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Oliver Jeffers by Martin Salisbury - ISBN: 9780500028155
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Critics Review

‘Oliver Jeffers, magic and mischief maker … vaulting the fence others erect between art and science’ - Bono

About The Author

Martin Salisbury

Martin Salisbury is Professor of Illustration at Cambridge School of Art in Anglia Ruskin University, where he designed and led the world-renowned MA Children’s Book Illustration programme. He has written several best-selling books about illustration, including Children’s Picturebooks: The Art of Visual Storytelling with Morag Styles (2012), which was awarded the UK Literacy Association’s Academic Book of the Year prize. At Thames & Hudson he has authored The Illustrated Dust Jacket: 1920-1970, Miroslav Šašek (The Illustrators series), Drawing for Illustration and Illustrators’ Sketchbooks.

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