Acclaimed U.K. children's author Oliver Jeffers to appear at Village Books

Acclaimed writer-illustrator of picture books Oliver Jeffers will be in Fairhaven this weekend to read from his recently released "Stuck," a howlingly funny tale of a young boy's efforts to solve a problem by throwing continuously bigger things at it.
In a phone conversation last week from his studio in Brooklyn, Jeffers said the idea for the book came from an incident that happened to his wife, when she snagged someone else's kite and tried mightily to free it - even heaving things into the tree.
Telling the story later to a friend was when he realized it should be a book.