What we'll build : plans for our together future

Title:

Author:

Summary:

A father and daughter set about laying the foundations for their life together. Using their own special tools, they get to work, building memories to cherish, a home to keep them safe, and love to keep them warm. -- Amazon.

Audience:

Ages 4-8. Philomel Books.

Grades K-1. Philomel Books.

General Note:

First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children's Books in 2020.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Genre:

Stories in rhyme.

Picture books.

Subject Term:

Building -- Juvenile fiction.

Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction.

Imagination -- Juvenile fiction.

Publisher:

Philomel Books,

Publication Date:

2020

ISBN:

9780593206751

Publication Information:

New York : Philomel Books, 2020.

Call Number:

P JEFFERS

Holds: Copies:

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Summary

An instant New York Times bestseller!

From Oliver Jeffers, world-renowned picture book creator and illustrator of The Crayons' Christmas , comes a gorgeously told father-daughter story and companion to the #1 New York Times bestseller Here We Are !

What shall we build, you and I?
Let's gather all our tools for a start.
For putting together . . .
and taking apart.

A father and daughter set about laying the foundations for their life together. Using their own special tools, they get to work, building memories to cherish, a home to keep them safe, and love to keep them warm.

A rare and enduring story about a parent's boundless love, life's endless opportunities, and all we need to build a together future. The perfect baby shower gift or gift for new parents!

Praise for What We'll Build :

"[Has] the offbeat, sweet style Jeffers' fans know and love." -- Kirkus Reviews

"An intensely personal statement of intergenerational fellowship and an obvious pick for library shelves best explored at home." -- School Library Journal

"Children will love his playbook for building a future of love and imagination, and they will delight in the special relationship the father and daughter share." -- Booklist

"Stroked in generous swaths of warm color and Jeffers's signature childlike scribbles . . . .. Jeffers's benediction portrays a parent who surrounds his child with love and steadies her as she learns how to bring her dreams to fruition." -- Publishers Weekly

Author Notes

Oliver Jeffers was born in Port Hedland, Western Australia in 1977. He grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He received a First Class Honors Degree in illustration and visual communication and certificate of foundation studies from the University of Ulster, School of Art and Design in 2001. His work has been exhibited in multiple cities, including the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Brooklyn Museum, and Gestalten Space in Berlin.

He writes and illustrates picture books. His debut book, How to Catch a Star, was published in 2004 and won a Merit Award at the CBI/Bisto Book of Year Awards. His second book, Lost and Found, won the Gold Award at Nestle Children's Book Prize and was developed into an animated short film, which has received over sixty awards including a BAFTA for Best Animated Short Film. His other books include The Incredible Book Eating Boy, The Great Paper Caper, Up and Down, Stuck, This Moose Belongs to Me, Once upon an Alphabet: Short Stories for All Letters, The Hueys series and A Child of Books. He has won numerous awards including the Smarties Award, Irish Book of the Year, The Blue Peter Book of the Year, and the 2017 Academy of British Cover Design Award in the Children's category.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

In this standalone companion to Here We Are! that is dedicated to his daughter, Jeffers imagines a stream of fanciful projects that a father, sporting a wool hat, and his sailor dress--clad daughter might do together. Zooming in on her small hands, his large ones, and the tools they have both assembled, it's clear that the narrator views the girl as a capable partner, despite her age--"Let's build a door/ where there was none,// We'll build a house/ to be our home." He promises to keep her safe in "a place to stay when all is lost,/ to keep the things we love the most," and he's also up for daffy engineering projects: towers, tunnels, a road to the moon, all stroked in generous swaths of warm color and Jeffers's signature childlike scribbles. In the story's most developed episode, the two realize that building walls keeps potential friends out, and they open their fortress gates to admit a Viking, a pirate, a witch, and a lavender-colored surgeon. Jeffers's benediction portrays a parent who surrounds his child with love and steadies her as she learns how to bring her dreams to fruition. Ages 4--8. Agent: Paul Moreton, Bell Lomax Moreton. (Oct.)