Lost and Found (The Boy, #2) by Oliver Jeffers

Lost and Found (The Boy, #2) Reviews

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  Keyhan Mosavvar

  یک داستان مصور کودک که یاد میده قبل از اینکه به کسی کمک کنی اول بپرسی مشکل واقعیش چیه و پیش قضاوت نداشته باشی و کاری رو سرخود انجام ندی.
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  Lisa Vegan

  The penguin is so adorable and the illustrations (which at first didn’t appeal to me all that much, except for the penguin) grew on me. I especially liked the wild sea picture with the huge wave and the lightning, and the whimsical one when first seeing the South Pole.
  
  The story is a cute one about friendship, and the reader/listener will learn a little bit about real penguins too, even though the story itself is a fantasy. I love how concerned the boy is for the penguin’s welfare and does the research he does in order to help the penguin.
  
  I got a kick out of the author bio on the inside back cover, complete with the author as a little boy, making a funny face. The paragraph about how this story came to be is amusing and told in a way that had me smiling.
  
  3 ½ stars
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  محمد شکری

  داستان پسری است که یک روز جلوی در خانه‌اش یک پنگوئن می‌بیند. پنگوئن همه جا دنبال پسر راه می‌افتد و غمگین به نظر می‌رسد. پسر قصه هم تلاش می‌کند تا بفهمد او از کجا آمده تا بتواند او را (که حتما گم شده و برای همین غمگین است) به خانه‌اش برگرداند. دفتر امور گم‌شده‌ها، پرنده‌های دیگر، اردک حمامش و همه وهمه... هیچ کس جوابی برای این سوال ندارد که پنگوئن از کجا آمده. پس خودش دست به کار می‌شود، تحقیق می‌کند و قایقی می‌سازد تا پنگوئن را به خانه بازگرداند. پنگوئن و پسر سفری دریایی را آغاز می‌کنند و پایان سفر پرمخاطره و پرماجرایشان به قطب جنوب می‌رسند. پسر پنگوئن را پیاده می‌کند و خوشحال باز می‌گردد. اما هرچه به چهره پنگوئن در لحظات خداحافظی فکر می‌کند می‌بیند او از همیشه غمگین‌تر بود. فکر می‌کند و فکر می‌کند و فکر‌می‌کند ... تا اینکه ... متوجه می‌��ود چه اشتباهی کرده‌است! دور می‌زند و برمی‌گردد به قطب جنوب و پنگوئن را پیدا می‌کند: پنگوئن گم نشده‌بود، فقط تنها بود و دوست لازم داشت
  پسر و پنگوئن با هم به خانه برمی‌گردند
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  Gerry

  I just can't resist a book with a penguin in it. And thank goodness I didn't resist this one. It is super.
  
  It is a simple story about a boy and a penguin but the feelings it arouses are many; there is pathos aplenty, a fear of being alone, wonderment, disappointment, determination and above all happiness and friendship.
  
  The boy in the story, unnamed, finds a penguin on his doorstep and wonders where he comes from. The penguin, meanwhile, stands there looking all very sad. The boy thinks the penguin must be lost so he visits the Lost and Found Office but meets with no joy. He even tries asking the birds if they know anything about the penguin, but, perhaps not surprisingly, they ignore his question. The boy also asks his pet toy duck when he gets in the bath that night but the duck, too, doesn't respond and simply floats away.
  
  When he goest to bed the boy frets because he wants to help the penguin but he doesn't know how to do so. The next morning he is determined and he finds out that penguins are from the South Pole. He wonders how to get there and return the penguin to his surroundings. In an effort to do so
  he goes down to the harbour and asks a big ship to take them to the South Pole but the ship is about to depart and does not hear the boy over the sound of the ship's horn.
  
  So the boy decides that he and the penguin will row to the South Pole. He takes his rowing boat out of the cupboard, tests it for size and strength and packs everything that the pair will need for the journey. Then together they push the rowing boat out to sea (and one of the most gorgeous and touching illustrations in the book is of the two of them doing so).
  
  They row south and to keep the penguin's spirits up the boy tells stories all the time. They battle on through good and bad weather and eventually reach the South Pole where there is a sign 'Welcome to the South Pole'! The boy is delighted but the penguin, who had been happy throughout the journey suddenly becomes sad again as the boy helps him out of the boat.
  
  Once the penguin is on terra firma, complete with the boy's umbrella, the boy rows away but he looks back and notices that the penguin looks sadder than ever. He feels strange to be on his own and the more he thinks about it the more he realises that he is making a big mistake and that the penguin is not lost, he is simply lonely.
  
  The boy makes a decision and turns round and rows back towards the South Pole but when he gets there the penguin is nowhere in sight, even as he looks around the landscape with his telescope. Eventually he has to give up and starts rowing home, sad but unable to communicate his feelings to anyone for there is only the sound of the wind and the waves.
  
  Then suddenly he espies something in the distance and as he gets closer he realises that it is the penguin who is rowing away in his umbrella! He is so thrilled that when he reaches the penguin the pair embrace and realise that they are friends forever.
  
  A great little story, beautifully illustrated.
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  Sam

  Someone will come and get you when you need them most.
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  Uyên Khôi

  Đọc cọp vào một buổi sáng bất ngờ được nghỉ, cùng với mấy con cá qua cắm rễ bên Nhã Nam.
  
  Cuốn sách này thật vừa vặn cho những cô bé, cậu bé đáng yêu, bởi vì nét vẽ cũng đáng yêu như những đứa trẻ vậy. Đến giờ mới biết Nhã Nam cũng có nhiều sách thiếu nhi cưng yêu như vậy. Mình sẽ siêng đọc hơn để trẻ hoá tâm hồn ra ahihi :">
• 
  Bahar meow

  FULL OF CUTE PAINTINGS.
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  Abigail

  "Once there was a boy who found a penguin at his door..." So begins this sweet, heartwarming tale, the second of four to feature the aforementioned boy and his adventures. Determining that his penguin visitor is lost, the boy sets out to return him to his home in the South Pole. After a long voyage, one featuring plenty of stories and good fellowship, the two arrive at their destination. But although he has reached his goal, the boy isn't happy...
  
  Like its predecessor,
  How to Catch a Star, Lost and Found features an engaging young protagonist who longs for something - in that earlier book, it was a star, here it is to make his penguin friend happy - and finds it in an unexpected way. Like Shaun Tan's marvelous
  The Lost Thing, Jeffers' Lost and Found was made into a short animated film in 2008, and after reading the picture-book, I'd definitely like to track down and watch the movie. This is one I'd recommend to those looking for children's stories about friendship - the loneliness its absence creates, and the unexpected ways one finds and creates it - as well as to anyone who read and enjoyed the earlier story about this boy-character and his life.
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  Katsumi

  This is the sweetest book. I would say this is a perfect book with many good lessons about friendship for young children. I also think this is a great books for anyone (teens, young adults and older). It has lovely illustrations. A true delight.
  
  The premise is that a boy opens his door to find a penguin. He works to find out whether the penguin is lost, and to where should he be returned. Ultimately boy and penguin travel to the South pole. Boy leaves penguin on ice floe only to realize that the penguin was not lost, he was just lonely. Boy and penguin are reunited, leaving them and the reader happily ever after.
  
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  Felicity Gibson

  This book conveys the importance of friendship, through exploring the themes of sympathy, loneliness and teamwork. It is ideal for reading aloud to children in Key Stage One and can be used as the starting point to a discussion about friendship.
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  Fatima Alqassab

  Cute and heartwarming story as expected from Oliver Jeffer.
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  Chantal

  A funny, but good story about being lonely. I really enjoyed listening to this story. Great drawings.
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  Rezvan

  بیستم تیر
  
  پسرک از چندتا پرنده پرسید آیا می‌دانند خانه پنگوئن ها کجاست؟
  اما آنها توجهی به او نکردند.
  خب بعضی از پرنده‌ها این‌جوری‌اند دیگر! ☹؛
  چرا خب بعضی پرنده‌ها اینجوری‌اند دیگر؟! ؛
  
  
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  Imane Zerguit

  Simple writing✔️and a nice story💫 that I really enjoyed reading. I'll continue to read the whole series🙏🏻
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  Gita Ghasemi

  عنوان فارسی: پنگوئنی که گم شده بود
  نویسنده و تصویرگر: اولیور جفرز
  مترجم: طاهره آدینه‌پور
  انتشارات هندونه
  
  روزی پسری، پنگوئنی را پشت در پیدا کرد. پسر نمی‌دانست که پنگوئن از کجا آمده اما هرجا که می‌رفت، پنگوئن هم دنبالش می‌آمد. پنگوئن غمگین به‌نظر می‌رسید. پسر فکر کرد: 《حتما پنگوئن گم شده است.》
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  Kathryn

  3.5 STARS The penguin is so cute! A nice story about friendship.
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  César Carranza

  Es un libro muy bueno para niños, me gusta especialmente el formato y las ilustraciones, una sensación un poco triste en ocasiones, pero es un libro muy muy bueno!
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  Tayebe Ej

  خیلی خیلی خیلی نازه.. اینکه خیلی وقتا به زعم خودمون میخوایم به دیگران کمک کنیم اما اصلا ازشون نمیپرسیم مشکلشون چیه. قطعا بقیه‌ی کتابهای این مجموعه رو هم میخونم
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  Rachel

  I really liked this book. I first thought was going to be about a boy who had lost his penguin and was going on an adventure to find him however it contains a far deeper message – a message on companionship. It depicts a boy attempting to help a penguin, who turned up at his door one day, who he realises is sad and thinks this is due to him being lost. So, they boy goes on a journey to help the penguin find its way home. He goes to a number of places to find the penguins home to no avail. Suddenly he realises penguins come from the South Pole so he continues his journey there. After leaving the penguin at the South Pole, who is still sad, the boy suddenly realises the penguin was not lost he was just lonely. This message is key to young readers, a message on companionship and that sometimes all someone needs is a bit of company or a friend to play with.
  The illustrations in this book are all bright and draw the eye. The front cover depicts a penguin and a boy standing in a rowing boat. The boy is depicted as slightly higher than the penguin portraying that maybe he has more power and status than the penguin. Neither character is looking directly at the reader however due to the single page bleed this still allows readers to feel that they are included in this story and going on the adventure with the characters. The boy is looking to the right, suggesting he is going on an adventure, whereas the penguin is looking to the left which could suggest he does not want to go on an adventure and that he has further motives than simply going on an adventure. A message that is later explored in the book. The boat is situated in the middle of the page which draws the eye and is what readers first look at. In the background a horizon is seen which could suggest adventure and creativity.
  One of the single spread pages in the book, p.23, adds a bit of humour to the story. It depicts an iceberg in the middle of the page, so what draws the eye, with the boy rowing in his row boat on the recto side of the iceberg and the penguin paddling in an umbrella on the verso hand side of the iceberg. This adds humour due to the boy attempting to row to the penguin and the penguin paddling to find the boy however due to the iceberg both are going in opposite directions. This is a single page bleed with the reader looking down on the characters which could suggest a lack of power for both characters or that they are weakened in some sense. The cool blue background portrays the coolness of the water and the differing shades depicts depth and realism. The text is written in black font situated at the top of the page, which is both easy to see and read.
  
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  Sandy

  There once was a boy who had a huge heart. When the boy discovers that something isn’t right, he feels that he knows what the right/correct solution is but he doesn’t know how to get it done. He searches and asks for answers and when he feels he knows the process, he takes the initiative to try to make everything right. It’s a huge undertaking but this caring boy is determined and selfless as he carries out this responsibility.
  
  It's only when everything is correct, when this task is finally completed, that the boy realizes that perhaps he made a mistake. For it was while he was completing this task that something else was also occurring, something he wasn’t aware of until now. Perhaps his right/correct solution wasn’t the answer. Perhaps the answer is something entirely different. Can he remedy the situation now or is it too late?
  
  Holy moly Oliver Jeffers, can you make this boy any sweeter? This boy has such a huge heart and the adventure that he takes to make things right was quite the ride. With illustrations that pulled me deeper into the story, my heart was bursting after I read this book. 5 stars!!
  
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  Katie Mote

  This is a lovely picture book, for young children. Although like with a lot of picture books, all children are able to enjoy it. It's about a little boy who finds a penguin at his door and realises the penguin is sad. He wants to make the penguin happy and so finds out where penguins come from and travels to the south pole to take penguin back home. As they reach the south pole it's clear that the penguin isn't lost, he's just lonely. And so the little boy brings him back home with him. The book is a beautiful picture of friendship, of looking out for others. Of trying to help people when they are sad. And you might not get it right the first time, you might not know what to say but thats okay. Because sometimes people just need someone to be there with them. I'm really glad I read this book on mental health awareness day!
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  Victoria Bailey

  A beautiful book that tells the story of the adventures of a young boy who wakes up to find a penguin on his doorstep.
  Before reading this story, I had seen the movie adaptation of it with my boyfriend's niece, who absolutely loves it and was excited to show me. Upon reading the book, I found myself moved once more by the enriched values of friendship that are portrayed through the story and beautiful illustrations. This book left me feeling uplifted and would definitely recommend!
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  Nouru-éddine

  
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  Nhi Nguyễn

  Can Oliver Jeffers ever write anything that is bad? I guess never! The author delivers another beautiful story, perfect for not only kids but also adults. I love the message in this book so much!!!! Some people are not lost; they are just lonely. What a wholesome book. And the teal color of the cover is growing on me, yessss :))))
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  Nicoleta

  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnSwi...
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  Frida Bedolla

  Me dan miedo los pingüinos pero este me cayó bien, es bonito sentirse perdido y encontrado.
  Me gustan los libros sobre la amistad.
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  Soumya

  3.5 stars.
  
  One word about this book - awww!
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  Kirsty

  A lot of grown ups that I know really enjoy Oliver Jeffers' work. I've read a couple of books which include his illustrations in the past, but this was the first taste I had of his solo work. The story in Lost and Found is really sweet, and it has a lovely message at its core. As I expected, the illustrations are the real triumph here; it is a sheer joy to look at.