The two are finally reunited and tell tales to each other all the way home. As the boy floats away he realises the penguin looks sadder than ever so returns but finds it gone as the penguin is at sea looking for him too. The non expressional penguin is taken back to the south pole by the boy as he believes that was what it wanted. Jeffers jumps into a childs mind and thinks out each scenario with the depth and obsession of a child – this clever style engages with children instantly as they can see themselves in ‘the boy’. Some birds are like that.” You will here children chuckling along as they observe the behaviour of the boy and the penguin. As you follow the character Oliver Jeffers tells the story with a humourous tone that will amuse children and adults – lines such as “ He asked some birds if they news where the penguin came from. The boy then goes on a journey to try and find out where the penguin has come from.

Once they reach the office he discovers no one is missing a penguin. One day the penguin just turns up at the boys house and the boy presumes he is lost so takes him to the lost and found office. Lost and Found is a simple tale about a boy and a penguin and their growing friendship. (Jan.Originality in story telling doesn’t get much better than Oliver Jeffers. Youngsters will cheer the pals' inevitable reunion and will likely request an immediate rereading of this gently humorous and heartwarming tale of friendship found, lost and regained.

The prose reflects the hero's sudden sadness after he sees the bird home (there 'was no point telling stories now because there was no one to listen except the wind and the waves'). After making sure their rowboat is ship-shape, the two set out to sea, the child rowing south while telling stories to the rapt penguin, sitting in the bow, endearingly holding a striped umbrella over its head when the weather turns stormy. ) that his new friend hails from the South Pole. He checks with the Lost and Found Office ('But no one was missing a penguin') and futilely asks some birds and the rubber duck that shares his bath for guidance before reading (in a book drolly entitled Where Penguins Come From , begins, 'Once there was a boy who found a penguin at his door.' Enticing, spare text and watercolor pictures follow the earnest, red-and-white-striped shirt clad child's quest to help the sad-looking penguin find its way home.

This beguiling tale featuring the round-headed lad from Jeffers's debut book, How to Catch a Star

Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers