Inside the Studio of Artist Oliver Jeffers

Photos by Jane Bruce
I don’t call them kids’ books,” explains Oliver Jeffers, “I call them picture books because I don’t think they’re just for kids; they’re for anyone who wants to look at them.” Since his first book, How to Catch a Star, debuted to critical acclaim in 2004, Jeffers has created over a dozen more—and for each one, he says, “my target audience when I’m making them is me.”
Recently, I caught up with Jeffers in