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.

Think about the use of rhyming within the text. Can you think of words that rhyme with pear / bear? 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. 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] 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? 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.Try retelling the story in another form (e.g. a comic strip, video performance, audio recording). Use the video below for inspiration: Children love playing with sounds and words. What other words rhyme with bear? Bear/pear/chair/dare.. What other words can you think of together that sound the same? Dog/log/fog/jog… Cat/mat/rat/sat… plum/gum/mum/yum. When you run out of ideas, think of a new word to try. How many portions of fruit and vegetables should people eat each day? Can you think of ways of encouraging people to do this? For example, you could record a radio advert or write a persuasive letter from the National Health Service to the people where you live.

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 ] She is the illustrator of J K Rowling's Quidditch Through the Ages, illustrated edition (2020) published by Bloomsbury Children's Books. Gravett made many physical artefacts, including a broom, silk badges and ceramics that were then photographed for the illustrations [9] Style [ edit ] Find out more Read more books by author/illustrator Emily Gravett here Titles include: * The Blue Chameleon Matilda’s Cat Again * Wolves * T he Odd Egg * Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears* 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.Carry out a survey to find out your friends’ favourite types of fruit. Can you put this information into a chart or a graph? 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 b c d e f g h "Emily Gravett: Kate Greenaway Medal Winner 2005". Press release 7 July 2006. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-12-01. 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 Set up a greengrocer role play area and work out the prices for customers who want to buy different types of fruit / vegetable.

a b (Greenaway Winner 2005). Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-07-08. 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 Storyplay 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] Orange Pear Apple Bear by Emily Gravett, is a lovely water-colour picture book about a bear and fruits, and how he plays with them, compares himself to them to finally decide to eat all of themThink about what happens to fruit peelings. Investigate what microorganisms are and find out how they help us. a b c "Emily Gravett wins 2005 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal for her first picture book". Press release 7 July 2006. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-06-29. 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. 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. 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

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. 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. Monkey and Me won the 2007 Booktrust Best Emerging Illustrator for children up to five-years-old. [13] a b c "Emily Gravett: Kate Greenaway Medal Winner 2008". Press release 26 June 2008. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-12-01. 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]

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] 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] 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 (Greenaway Winner 2008). Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-07-08. The CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Medals shortlists 2022". www.readings.com.au . Retrieved 20 March 2022.