What We’ll Build: Plans for Our Together Future

A spectacular new title from world-renowned artist Oliver Jeffers, creator of the million-copy selling, global phenomenon Here We Are!

What shall we build, you and I?

I’ll build your future and you’ll build mine.
We’ll build a watch to keep our time.

A father and daughter set about laying the foundations for their life together. Using their own special tools, they get to work; building memories to cherish, a home to keep them safe and love to keep them warm.

From renowned, internationally bestselling picture-book creator and visual artist, Oliver Jeffers, comes this rare and enduring story about a parent’s boundless love, life’s endless opportunities and all we need to build a together future.

• Written especially for his young daughter, Mari, this moving and thought-provoking book is the highly anticipated ‘sibling’ title to the global picture book phenomenon Here We Are!

• The perfect gift for a new baby or young child, What We’ll Build will have powerful resonance for parents.

• Publication of What We’ll Build will broaden the heritage of Oliver’s classic and original picture books which have set him apart as a best-selling, master picture book maker and children’s book icon

• Oliver is one of the most important and talented artists in today’s market, whose picture books have been translated in to 45 languages, selling more than 14 million copies worldwide [Bids 16/1/20, not including US sales of Crayons books]

• Here We Are was a New York Times #1 Best Seller in first week of publication!

• Here We Are won #1 TIME Best Book of the Year for 2017

• Here We Are has sold almost 900k units, worldwide, and has been translated into 29 languages!

• Oliver Jeffers won Gold in the new ‘Audio Performer of the Year’ category at the Audio Production Awards, 2018, for his narration of Here We Are.

• Here We Are was shortlisted for the London Book Fair Children's Travel Book of the Year

• HarperCollins is the original and future home of Oliver’s solo picture books

• 2014 saw the 10th anniversary of Oliver’s debut picture book How to Catch a Star, with media, marketing and publicity raising the profile of all of Oliver’s books.

• Oliver has been the recipient of some of children's books highest accolades, including the Nestlé Gold Medal for Lost and Found and the Irish Picture Book of the Year for The Incredible Book Eating Boy. Other award-winning titles include The Way Back Home, which was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway medal. An animated film of Lost and Found won a BAFTA for Best Animation in 2009.

• Check out Oliver’s fantastic website at www.oliverjeffersworld.com

Competition: How to Catch a Star;Lost and Found;Stuck;Day Crayons Quit;Came Home;Fausto;Oi Frog;The Koala Who Could;The Storm Whale;Lost Words;Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse;Julian is a Mermaid;Ruby’s Worry;Look Up!Grandad’s Island. by;Oliver Jeffers;Jim Field;Benji Davies;Rachel Bright;Charlie Mackesy