Name: Oliver Jeffers: Where to Hide a Star
Start: 2024-10-22T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-22T19:30:00-04:00
Location: The Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center

Join us at the Delaplaine Arts Center as we welcome world-renowned author and artist Oliver Jeffers to Frederick! To celebrate 20 years of picture book making and the release of his new book, Where to Hide a Star, Oliver will share his new story about the magic of friendship, answer questions, and sign books.
Tickets are required for this event. Each ticket admits up to two (2) people and includes one (1) copy of Where to Hide a Star. To purchase tickets, visit our Eventbrite page.
Oliver Jeffers will sign all copies of Where to Hide a Star as well as one (1) backlist title per attendee. Additional backlist will be signed, time permitting. Accessibility requests must be emailed to [email protected] at least two weeks prior to the event.
About the book:
Oliver Jeffers returns with Boy and Penguin and brings to life an endearing story about the magic of friendship and joy in this highly anticipated new adventure!
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 . . . The out-of-this-world, long-awaited sequel to the much-loved Boy stories, loved all around the world—now introducing a brand-new character!
About the author:
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.