Words and pictures good enough to eat

Library visits often deliver serendipity, and Saturday's delivery was more than usually pleasing. Here is The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers:


The illustrations are all mashed up from obsolete encyclopedias and discarded files and old school exercise books (you can practically smell them), painted on and reassembled into an utterly gorgeous book about books. I want to own this one, and everything else he's done.