Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth

BOOK SUMMARY

Oliver Jeffers, arguably the most influential creator of picture books today, offers a rare personal look inside his own hopes and wishes for his child—and in doing so gifts children and parents everywhere with a gently sweet and humorous missive about our world and those who call it home.

Insightfully sweet, with a gentle humor and poignancy, here is Oliver Jeffers’ user’s guide to life on Earth. He created it specially for his son, yet with a universality that embraces all children and their parents.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Oliver Jeffers makes art and tells stories. His books include How to Catch a Star; Lost and Found, which received the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize Gold Award and was later adapted into an award-winning animated film; and the New York Times bestsellers Stuck, This Moose Belongs to Me, and Once Upon an Alphabet. He is also the illustrator of the #1 smash hits The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home, written by Drew Daywalt. His fine art is world-renowned and his exhibitions are highly sought after. Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Oliver now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and young son.

PRAISE

“Moments of human intimacy jostle with scenes that inspire cosmic awe, and the broad diversity of Jeffers’s candy-colored humans underscores the twin messages that ‘you’re never alone on Earth’ and that we’re all in this together.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“A sweet and tender distillation of what every Earthling needs to know and might well spend a lifetime striving to achieve. A must-purchase for new parent shelves.”
—School Library Journal

“From the skies to the animal kingdom to the people of the world and lots of other beautifully rendered examples of life on Earth, Here We Are carries a simple message: be kind.”
—NPR

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Hardcover
48 pages
Fiction
11.3 in H | 9.9 in W | 0.5 in T | 1.2 lb