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Author and artist Oliver Jeffers, whose latest book is “Begin Again,” in Los Angeles’ Union Station on Oct. 11, 2023. “Human beings are a story-driven species. We are all just a collection of stories,” he says. “You can change the story.”
“One of the things that spurred this book on was I met an old lady in Belfast once we got back just before lockdown,” he says. “I asked her, ‘Do you think we’re going to be in lockdown for a long time?’ and she goes, ‘I do. I thought this was going to be like … but it’s not, because back then everybody tried to see how they could help. But look around, everybody’s just trying to see what they can get away with.
But Jeffers is best known to countless children and parents for his remarkable picture books, which include “Lost & Found,” “How to Catch a Star” and “Stuck,” as well as collaborations “The Day the Crayons Came Home” with Drew Daywalt and “A Child of Books” with Sam Winston. “So the fireman says on the very last page of ‘Stuck,’ ‘Hang on a minute, lads, I’ve got a great idea’ – that’s Michael Caine’s last line” in “The Italian Job,” he says.
“My mother had MS for my whole life; she died 20 years ago and I have no memory of her walking. And yet when we asked her how she was she would smile and say, ‘Great,’ and mean it. Because she had shifted her priorities. She was like, ‘You know what, I get to see the sunrise another day; I get to look at my four boys walking around, safe and healthy.’ And she meant it,” he says.
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