Award-winning picture book creator, Oliver Jeffers, first-ever New Zealand public event has now sold out

Award-winning picture book creator, Oliver Jeffers, first-ever New Zealand public event has now sold out

Critically acclaimed picture book creator Oliver Jeffers will take part in his first-ever public New Zealand event in Wellington on Tuesday 8 May.  Demand for tickets to see this rising star has been phenomenal and this event is now sold out.

Jeffers will also be participating in several events at the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival.  On Saturday 12 May he will be doing an event for families, in which he will draw live onstage, supported by storyteller and comic strip artist Dylan Horrocks, speak about his books and answer questions from the audience.  This will be Oliver’s one and only public event for children and adults in Auckland during this tour and tickets are still available.

Oliver Jeffers is an artist and award-winning picture book creator who was first published by Harper Collins in 2004.  Since then he has gone on to sell nearly a million picture books in 19 languages. 

Jeffers has won almost every major award in the UK, including the BBC Blue Peter Book of The Year Award, Nestle Gold Medal Award, Irish Children’s Book of the Year and has been shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award.

To date Jeffers has published eight picture books, including the critically acclaimed Lost and Found and The Heart and the Bottle, and most recently Stuck, the laugh-out-loud story about what happens when a young boy gets his kite stuck in the tree.

Jeffers is a founding member of the OAR collective, he has exhibited his work in galleries all over the world including the US, Chile, Ireland and Australia, and most significantly the National Portrait Gallery in London, he’s illustrated for magazines, illustrated the headquarters of major global corporations and designed album covers. 

To purchase tickets for Oliver Jeffers event on Saturday 12 May: http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/