Emily Gravett was born on 1972 and is an English author and illustrator of children's picture books.
11 Facts About Emily Gravett
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Emily Gravett was born in Brighton, England, the second daughter of a printmaker father and an art teacher mother.
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Emily Gravett left school at 16 with a GCSE qualification only in Art and travelled Great Britain for eight years, living in "a variety of vehicles" and meeting her partner Mik.
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Emily Gravett 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.
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Emily Gravett entered Wolves in a beautiful dummy format, and really we had to do very little work on it before it was published.
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The former Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson wrote and Emily Gravett illustrated Cave Baby, a 32-page picture book featuring a prehistoric baby's tour atop a woolly mammoth, published by Macmillan in 2010.
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Emily Gravett is the illustrator of J K Rowling's Quidditch Through the Ages, illustrated edition published by Bloomsbury Children's Books.
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Emily Gravett made many physical artefacts, including a broom, silk badges and ceramics that were then photographed for the illustrations.
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Emily Gravett completed Wolves in six weeks as an illustration course project and added only the back endpaper spread during the editorial process.
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Emily Gravett encouraged the pet dog to chew the dummy for Wolves "to simulate the impact of the wolf's teeth".
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Emily Gravett wanted Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears to look genuinely chewed, so she painted yoghurt on plain white paper and laid it in the cage of the two pet rats.