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Artist Oliver Jeffers gives readers an unprecedented and intimate window into his creative process, weaving his popular works with never-before-seen art and illustrations, alongside his personal story of how he came to art, his love of books, and his bookmaking, fashioned from his personal sketchbooks. This dynamic visual biography is Jeffers's personal chronicle of an artist who blends his love of creating stories with his love of art and his infectious charm, and is a must-have for art lovers and bibliophiles both young and old. Oliver Jeffers takes a dive into Oliver's own origin story, inspirations, art evolution, and passion for storytelling: from growing up loving art and creating stories as a young boy in Belfast, Ireland; to finding a huge audience for his loveable stories; to what led him to his enormously clever found painting; to his collaborations with U2, TED, Colette, and Apple, to his newest meditative dipped painting performances. Oliver Jeffers is a fresh canvas for his imagination, and includes a pass through his most popular work, never-before-published illustrations and art, and a look into his more personal world of sketchbooks and doodles. Oliver's own story, infused with the whimsy and joy his work is famous for, is must-have not only for current fans of Oliver Jeffers's picture books, but also new fans, art lovers, and bibliophiles both young and old.

The illustrated children's literature book involves the interaction between written text and image, configuring it as a powerful tool for promoting visual literacy and training readers. Photography as an illustration, added to the materiality of the printed book, can contribute to the development of the literary reader's skills, expanding the possibilities of rapprochement between the reader and the work, based on handling and interaction with the tangible object. This article features a segment from an ongoing doctoral study, its methodology is a qualitative bibliographic analysis and its goal is to discuss photographic illustration, the materiality of the printed book and the metafictional proposal of the narrative as devices that contribute to the approximation between the reader and the work. As a result, it is considered that the choice of photography, associated with the materiality of the book, is capable of expanding dialogues and interpretations, enhancing the training readers. KEYWORDS: Children's literature, Illustration, Photography, Materiality, Metafiction O livro de literatura infantil ilustrado envolve a interacao texto escrito e imagem, configurando-o como uma poderosa ferramenta para a promocao da literacia visual e para a formacao de leitores. A fotografia como ilustracao, somada a materialidade do livro impresso, pode contribuir para o desenvolvimento das competencias do leitor literario, ampliando as possibilidades de aproximacao entre o leitor e a obra, a partir do manuseio e da interacao com o objeto palpavel. Este artigo apresenta um recorte de um estudo de doutoramento em curso, tem como metodologia uma analise bibliografica de cunho qualitativo e como objetivo discutir a ilustracao fotografica, a materialidade do livro impresso e a proposta metaficcional da narrativa como artificios que contribuem para a aproximacao entre o leitor e a obra. Como resultados, considera-se que a escolha pela fotografia, associada a materialidade do livro, se mostra capaz de ampliar dialogos e interpretacoes, favorecendo a formacao de leitores. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Literatura infantil, Ilustracao, Fotografia, Materialidade, Metaficcao

This article examines the intersection of horror and detective genres in children's literature through the figure of the ghost. In Helen Friel's Midnight Monsters (2018) and Oliver Jeffers's There's a Ghost in This House (2021), ghosts are safely introduced to the youngest audience of child readers while turning these readers into active detectives. This extends to Yvette Fielding's The House in the Woods (2021) and Lindsay Currie's It Found Us (2023), where ghosts are rendered innocent and encourage child readers to connect to traumatizing and violent pasts. By demonstrating how paranormal tropes transform ghost stories into investigative narratives that prioritize closure over ambiguity, this article argues that ghosts enable child detectives to confront traumatic histories and \"mature\" themes safely.