Emily Gravett

Emily Gravett (* 1972 in Brighton ) is a British illustrator and picture book author.

Life

Emily Gravett left school at 16 and traveled the country with her partner on a bus for many years before they both settled in Wales. In 2001 they returned to Brighton, where Gravett studied illustration and design at the university there . Her first picture book Wolves was published in 2005 and was awarded the Macmillan Prize for Illustration and the Kate Greenaway Medal , among others . In 2008 she again received the Kate Greenaway Medal for My Book About Fear . Uwe-Michael Gutzschhahn translates your children's books into German.

Emily Gravett lives with her partner and their daughter in her birthplace.

Works

• Watch out wolf! ( Wolves , 2005) Sauerländer, Düsseldorf 2006, ISBN 3-7941-5112-7
• Mail from meerkats. ( Meerkat mail , 2006) Sauerländer, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 3-7941-5141-0
• My book about being afraid. ( Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears , 2007) Sauerländer, Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-7941-5195-0
• The funny egg. ( The odd egg , 2008) Sauerländer, Mannheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-7941-5237-7
• Pebbles and mammoth. A story by Julia Donaldson . ( Cave Baby , 2010) Sauerländer, Mannheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-7941-5263-6 .
• The Rabbit Problem . Simon & Schuster, New York City, USA 2010, ISBN 978-1-4424-1255-2 .

Awards

• 2004: Macmillian Prize for Illustration
• 2005: Kate Greenaway Medal for Achtung Wolf!
• 2006: Lynx of the month March for Achtung Wolf!
• 2006: Toad of the month February for Achtung Wolf!
• 2006: The best 7 of April
• 2005: Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for Achtung Wolf!
• 2007: Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for My Book of Fear
• 2007: Reading Peter of the Month for the picture book Post vom Erdmännchen
• 2008: Kate Greenaway Medal for My Book of Fear
• 2010: Invitation to the children's and youth program at the 10th international literature festival in Berlin

Web links

• Emily Gravett's website