Orange Pear Apple Bear

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Try retelling the story in another form (e.g. a comic strip, video performance, audio recording). Use the video below for inspiration: 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] 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] 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. 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

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. 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. Think about what happens to fruit peelings. Investigate what microorganisms are and find out how they help us.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.

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.

The Imaginary

Think about the use of rhyming within the text. Can you think of words that rhyme with pear / bear? 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 "Emily Gravett: Kate Greenaway Medal Winner 2008". Press release 26 June 2008. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-12-01. 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]

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 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. 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. 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. 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]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 "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.