The Places You Will Go: Picture Book of the Month: The Way Back Home

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Picture Book of the Month: The Way Back Home

April 2008

The Way Back Home Author

By Oliver Jeffers

Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books, 32 pages

OLIVER Jeffers' books tend to feature little boys with big dreams, big hearts and big appetites. Here, we have another boy who, finding an aeroplane in his cupboard, flies off in it. The sky's not the limit for this young adventurer: he flies past clouds, stars and planets and, finally, lands on the moon when he runs out of petrol. Luckily, he's befriended by an alien who's suffered the same fate. Hopefully, the pair can figure out how to get out of the predicament they're in. And if they don't, at least they'll have company on the moon.

1 May 2008 01:36:00 | Children's Literature, Picture Book of the Month, Picture/Board Books

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