How to Catch a Star

By: Oliver Jeffers

Published November 6th 2006 by HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks (first published June 3rd 2004)

Category: Arts

Pages: 32 pages

ISBN: 9780007228072

Description:
Once there was a boy, and that boy loved stars very much. So much so that he decided to catch one of his very own. But how? Waiting for them to grow tired from being up in the sky all night doesn't work. Climbing to the top of the tallest tree? No, not tall enough. The boy has a rocket ship . . . but it is made of paper and doesn't fly well at all. Finally, just when the boy is ready to give up, he learns that sometimes things aren't where, or what, we expect them to be.

First-time author/illustrator Oliver Jeffers offers a simple, childlike tale of reaching for the stars, and emerging with a friend.