E.g Exploring night scene with different water colours.The book touches on the idea that if you try hard enough you can achieve or do anything, even if it seems impossible. The book has very good illustration and can be found in a large format.children can explore this book in a cross-curricular way.links to Art and PHSE can be easily made. This is a very sweet story and I would recommend it for children from 5 up. Finally the sun sets and the boy sees a star and sets out to catch it.How will he ever catch the star? the story is written from the viewpoint of the child,therefore the reasoning and imagination is child like. When he wakes up one morning he sees there are no stars in the sky so he waits and waits. ' 'HOW TO CATCH A STAR' is a story about a young boy who loves stars and wants to catch a star of his own. So to check if we have the book in-stock before you place your order, contact us at 6702 2452 or drop us an email at Level: 3+ *Despite our best efforts to predict the demand for books, the magical spells we use sometimes fail us. Finally, just when the boy is ready to give up, he learns that sometimes things aren't where, or what, we expect them to be.įirst-time author/illustrator Oliver Jeffers offers a simple, childlike tale of reaching for the stars, and emerging with a friend. but it is made of paper and doesn't fly well at all. Climbing to the top of the tallest tree? No, not tall enough. But how? Waiting for them to grow tired from being up in the sky all night doesn't work. So much so that he decided to catch one of his very own.

Once there was a boy, and that boy loved stars very much.

How to catch a star