【奧利佛．傑法暖心經典再回歸】星星捉迷藏 Where to Hide a Star

 
　　小男孩最喜歡和好朋友星星與企鵝一起玩捉迷藏，星星不擅長躲藏，總是一下子就被找到。有一天他們又一起玩最喜歡的遊戲，可是這次小男孩卻怎麼找也找不到星星……小男孩用無線電向火星人求救，接著他們一起前往北極展開星星救援計畫。沒想到當他們來到北極，小男孩卻發現，原來自己不是唯一想跟星星當朋友的人⋯⋯星星會變成什麼樣子？他們能成功營救星星嗎？
 
　　經典作品How to Catch a Star是知名創作者奧利佛．傑法（Oliver Jeffers）的出道作，出版二十年後，他獻上驚喜新作Where to Hide a Star。系列中讓人懷念的經典角色小男孩、星星、小企鵝、火星人一一登場，不只讓粉絲重溫「男孩成長經驗」（The Boys）系列的療癒感動，更以新角色再創美好。
 
　　奧利佛．傑法坦承自己是傾向不回頭看的類型，當一本書出版，他通常已經在進行下個計畫。他曾說不打算再創作How to Catch a Star系列的續集，除非對的靈感來臨，而過了二十年後，這個時刻終於來臨。奧利佛．傑法談到：「我幾乎忘了當時畫小男孩和企鵝的感覺，可是當我拿起畫筆，那熟悉的色彩和筆觸，感覺很快就回來了，就好像這些是我遺失的自我的一部份，就好像這是和失散已久的家人的重逢。能把熟悉的世界延續到新領域，感覺令人興奮，這讓我回想起二十年前創作How to Catch a Star的時候，我希望把這種興奮的心情和新一代的孩子分享。」　　
 
　　快樂就是我們有彼此相伴，不再感到孤單，奧利佛．傑法以簡單的圖像和文字，捕捉最單純的感動。新作延續該系列一貫的溫馨故事，富有質感的水彩色調隨著場景與主角情緒變化，角色間可愛互動和友誼，讓人看完故事後，心中充滿溫暖的幸福感。
 
　　奧利佛．傑法的作品在全世界熱銷超過1500萬冊，被翻譯成近50種語言，代表作包括《Here We Are: 歡迎來到這個美麗的星球》、《蠟筆大罷工》（The Day the Crayons Quit）、《書之子》（A Child of Books）等。　
 
「男孩成長經驗」（The Boys）系列包括：
1. How to Catch a Star
2. Lost and Found
3. The Way Back Home
4. Up and Down

＂Once there was a boy who would often play hide-and-seek with his friends: the star and the penguin. The star was always easy to find, but one day it went missing. So, the boy radioed the Martian for help, and soon found himself on an exciting spaceship rescue mission to the North Pole! But there, he discovered that he wasn’t the only one who had always dreamed of having a star as a friend＂--

Oliver Jeffers is a visual artist and author working in painting, bookmaking, illustration, collage, performance and sculpture. His engagements and practice are truly international in scope. His critically acclaimed picture books have been the recipients of numerous awards, including a New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award, TIME Best Book of the Year, Bologna Ragazzi Award, an Irish Book Award, a United Kingdom Literary Association Award and two Emmy Awards for the Apple TV adaptation of Here We Are: Notes For Living on Planet Earth. He has exhibited at institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Jeffers work is currently featured in the new long-term exhibition ＂Building Stories＂ at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. He also recently received a Member of the Order of the British Empire Award (MBE) for his Services in Art.