Stuck, Oliver Jeffers
Stuck, Oliver Jeffers
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Stuck

Author: Oliver Jeffers

Narrator: Terence Stamp

Unabridged: 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 08/29/2013


Synopsis

Chaos ensues when a young boy gets his kite stuck up a tree in this laugh-out-loud new picture book from award-winning, internationally best-selling author-illustrator Oliver Jeffers! Floyd gets his kite stuck up a tree. He throws up his shoe to shift it, but that gets stuck too. So he throws up his other shoe and that got stuck, along with… a ladder, a pot of paint, the kitchen sink, an orang-utan and a whale, amongst other things! Will Floyd ever get his kite back? A hilarious book with a wonderful surprise ending.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maggie

We've had this one for awhile, but tonight I read it with the wee maggots again and realized I had never recommended it to others. It's like black-humor-for-babies. It's not really dark in the slightest, but it subverts typical moralistic picture books in a way that my kids find hilarious — they lov......more

Goodreads review by Alan

Clare (my wife) is an infant teacher, but she's recently been tasked with setting up and stocking the library, so she occasionally brings home books to show me. The ones she thinks I'll like. For example The Red Tree. This time it was two Oliver Jeffers' books (this one and The Incredible Book Eatin......more


Quotes

"Stuck is perhaps the most impressive picture book published this year… Brilliantly silly." Daily Telegraph Praise for The Incredible Book Eating Boy: ‘Mouth-wateringly irresistible’ The Guardian ‘This is a book that children will devour’ The Observer Praise for Lost and Found: ‘A heart-warming story’ The Guardian Praise for How to Catch a Star: ‘The best recent picture book by light years, is stylishly spellbinding.’ Telegraph ‘Hail to new talent… If only all picture books could be this good.’ The Bookseller Praise for The Heart and the Bottle: ‘Profoundly moving’ The Irish Times