Gravett's books are interactive. She encouraged the pet dog to chew the dummy for Wolves "to simulate the impact of the wolf's teeth". That didn't work so she chewed it herself. [1] Everyone can remember a time when grammar has failed them. The results are usually quite amusing, whether someone likes cooking their family and their cat rather then cooking, their family and their cat or whether a driver is being made aware of slow children crossing, rather then being told to drive slow because children are crossing. Grammar is hard but teaching grammar shouldn't be. Orange Pear Apple Bear it a fantastic book to use to show children the importance of a comma. It shows clearly how missing one out can drastically change the meaning of what written. This book would be a great classroom aid for use when introducing commas and as refresher for those older children who still haven't quite got it, or for those who don't really understand why they are using them. Award-winning book illustrator reveals her secret: rat pee". Charlotte Higgins. The Guardian 26 June 2008. Retrieved 2012-12-01. Online this is accompanied by a gallery of spreads from six picture books.

As of June 2008, she lives in Brighton with Mik and Olly. [2] [3] She works in an attic studio "with views of the South Downs". [1] Career [ edit ] Read the story again, this time leaving spaces for children to join in with the repeated words and phrases. Encourage older children in this age group to notice and recognise individual words. They might begin with a word beginning with the same letter as their name or the name of a member of their family or a friend. Tell the story Next year (officially dated 2007) [a] she made the Greenaway shortlist for Orange Pear Apple Bear. The year after that she won a second Medal (no one has won three) for her fourth book, Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears, and made the shortlist as well for fifth book, Monkey and Me. [3] [5] WorldCat reports that Orange Pear Apple Bear is her work most widely held in participating libraries. According to one library summary, it "[e]xplores concepts of color, shape, and food using only five simple words, as a bear juggles and plays." [6]During her second year as a student, Gravett entered one of her school projects for the Macmillan Prize for Children's Illustration, a competitive annual award to art students established in 1985. [1] She earned a "Highly Commended" then and won the prize in her final year, when she entered two books that the judges ranked first and second. That ensured a contract publication of Wolves by Macmillan Children's Books (now the Children's Books imprint of Pan Macmillan). The editorial director later said, "It was quite obvious who the winner was going to be. Emily entered Wolves in a beautiful dummy format, and really we had to do very little work on it before it was published. She's a bookbinder as well as an artist; a real creator of books." [1] Two years after graduation she won the Kate Greenaway Medal from the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, recognising Wolves as the previous year's (2005) best-illustrated new children's book published in the United Kingdom. [2] [4] By that time, rights had been sold in five other countries. [1]

a b c d e f g h "Emily Gravett: Kate Greenaway Medal Winner 2005". Press release 7 July 2006. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-12-01. Children can use a bear animal toy and real fruit to retell the story. It’s a good way for them to get to know the story well and helps to make the book more interesting and memorable. Play a word game a b c "Feel the Fear and Win It Anyway...: Emily Gravett scoops second CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal". Press release 26 June 2008. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-06-29. Emily Gravett was born in Brighton, England, the second daughter of a printmaker father and an art teacher mother. After her parents separated, she lived with her mother, but she and her father would "go out drawing" in museums. She left school at 16 with a GCSE qualification only in Art (grade A) and travelled Great Britain for eight years, living in "a variety of vehicles" and meeting her partner Mik. [1] As a tool for teaching English or helping children build confidence in their speech, this story could be acted out. Children would be asked to improvise a performance out of the book, by for example having a child narrate the story while the others, actors, perform the actions and dancing movements of the bear with the fruits.Orange can be a noun and an adjective. Discuss what these words mean and think of sentences that include orange as a noun and / or an adjective. Can you find any other words that can be a noun and an adjective? a b c "Emily Gravett: Kate Greenaway Medal Winner 2008". Press release 26 June 2008. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-12-01. Try retelling the story in another form (e.g. a comic strip, video performance, audio recording). Use the video below for inspiration: a b c (Greenaway Winner 2008). Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-07-08. Set up a greengrocer role play area and work out the prices for customers who want to buy different types of fruit / vegetable.

After hearing the story a few times, children will get to know it well. Encourage them tell it to you in their own way, using the pictures to help them. Things to make and do StoryplayMonkey and Me won the 2007 Booktrust Best Emerging Illustrator for children up to five-years-old. [13] The story (mostly pictural) is based on only four words Orange, Pear, Apple and Bear, and is yet very sweet, amusing, eye- capturing and easy to read and understand.