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. Read the story aloud, taking time to talk together about the pictures as you do. Talking about the book is a good way to deepen children’s enjoyment and understanding of the story. Join in 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. Set up a greengrocer role play area and work out the prices for customers who want to buy different types of fruit / vegetable. 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.

Gravett "realised that I wanted a career, and drawing was my only skill", so she began an art course. The family returned to Brighton in 2001, where persistence rather than qualifications got her an interview for the illustration degree course at the local university. She matriculated that September and graduated three years later. [1] 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] 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.

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Carry out a survey to find out your friends’ favourite types of fruit. Can you put this information into a chart or a graph? 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 ] Think about the use of rhyming within the text. Can you think of words that rhyme with pear / bear? a b c (Greenaway Winner 2008). Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-07-08.

This book provides good reading material for young children or children in Key Stage 1 or Foundation level Stages of their education, as it is easy to understand (there’s only 4 words to the story) and the vocabulary in the book can easily be learned and remembered. 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]A ge 0-5 A wonderfully simple story told using only the four words of the title plus one at the end, ‘there!’ These few words are used playfully and imaginatively in different combinations to enjoyable and comic effect. The book also shows how a little comma makes a big difference to the meaning. Emily Gravett is a multiple award winning author/illustrator, including the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal.