Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston mellifluously and joyously invite us to celebrate The Book. The outcome of their collaboration is a gorgeous and sensitive exploration of how magical books are and how we should be inspiring children to not only encounter the classics but also to find their own narratives.

A young girl entices a young boy to sail ‘across a sea of words’ with her because she is a ‘child of books and comes from a world of stories’. As they roam in and around gems of children’s literature and the eloquence of the written word merges with the dreamlike mastery of the images, the reader is borne away into a world of enchantment. This is a book for book-lovers and for anyone who wants to encourage a child to love books. So be inspired, bewitched and seduced by one of the masters of picture books in Jeffers and a newcomer to children’s illustration, Winston, who is surely on his way to a stellar career.

Alexa Dretzke