Wolves

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Matilda's cat watches with disdain as his mistress plays with wool, climbs into boxes and dons a funky hat. But there is one thing that Matilda's cat likes very much indeed. It's Cedric's the little dragon's bedtime, but before he goes to sleep, there's just enough time for mum to read him a bedtime story. The front cover illustration shows the title Little Mouse's Emily Gravett's Big Book of Fears, a mouse looking through a hole it has chewed, and damage along the book edges. [5] Part of my 365 Kids Books challenge. For a fuller explanation see my review for 101 Amazing Facts about Australia You can see all the books on their own shelf. Emily Gravett (born 1972) is an English author and illustrator of children's picture books. For her debut book Wolves published in 2005 and Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears published three years later, she won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal recognising the year's best-illustrated British children's book.

I bought this book as it had won the Kate Greenaway Medal and had also won the Nestle Children's Book Prize Bronze Award in 2005. Although I liked the story I was not as keen on the illustrations funnily enough but I feel the acclaim the book received dilutes any comments I have about it. Write your own information report about wolves (or a different topic of your choice). Could you record an audio / video version of the report? Discover how to support your child’s growth as a young reader and writer — with our Reading 101 for Families guide, bilingual parent tips, ideas for building your child’s knowledge of the world, Q&A with experts, and guidance on connecting with your child’s school. Then there’s Battle Bunny, for another example of metafiction which pokes fun at picturebooks in general. It seems rabbits are an excellent choice for picturebook parodies, probably because they’re so ubiquitous and also because they’re inherently cute, furry and helpless, lending themselves to cutesy stories.

And it wasn’t until I came up with the idea of a mouse that it seemed to come together. And then I realized that if it was a little mouse, then that would be perfect because they’re so small and shivery and sort of scared of things that he could have these big fears, but he could work his way through the book so he could actually burrow himself into it. The reason I found this book to be so thrilling is because the nature of the text is completely different to what I knew. The book is essentially a fiction book, or is it non-fiction? An argument I’m sure that can be had among many people for a lifetime. Essentially the writing does not fit the pictures, which in itself is a difficult task to do. Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments Next year (officially dated 2007) 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. 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."

And I had got to Sunday night and I had to hand in this project on the Monday, and I had been reading this book, Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, which is about grammar, because my grammar is really, really, really bad. And when I woke up in the next morning, which was a Sunday morning, I had the words “orange pear, apple bear” going round and round in my head. Find the location of your nearest library. Can you plan a trip there? What route will you take? How will you get there?​ An OPAL pond survey where children look closely at their local pond. Then report their data to a national study to help build up a wider picture of the UKs fauna and flora. Children do a pond dip to see which creatures they can see, test the water for PH and look for indicators of pond health.Rabbit borrows a book about wolves from the library. Straight forward enough. But what if a book should come alive? It's not long before a sinister figure with sharp claws and a bushy tail starts to creep up on Rabbit. You won't believe your eyes - but if you're a rabbit, you probably should. Emily Gravett was born in Brighton, England, the second daughter of a printmaker and an art teacher. She left school at 16 and travelled the UK for eight years, living in a big green bus with her partner and their daughter. For 2008 Gravett was official illustrator for World Book Day (United Kingdom) [7] — an honor with duties such as specially commissioned illustrations and recorded demonstration of characters from her books.

Wolves by Emily Gravett is a true masterpiece which I believe holds value across the key stages within a school.

Watch this video in which the author talks about her books. What questions would you like to ask her? Read (or tell) the story of Little Red Riding Hood and talk about what is the same and different about the wolves in the two stories. You could write down some wolf characteristics that children notice, for example: fierce, big and scary, sharp teeth, clever, hungry… Tell a scary story