Her most recent picture book to be published by Macmillan is Little Mouse’s Big Book of Beasts, the hotly anticipated follow-up to Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears.

This book takes you on a journey with a meerkat who is looking for a home that suits him better than his current family home. Emily has also illustrated Cave Baby which was written by the former children’s laureate Julia Donaldson. My son really enjoys reading it or me reading it to him, or sometimes just looking through and reading just the postcards! Each book is unique and different from the last – and each features endearing, beautifully drawn characters that touch the heart and tickle the funny bone. and the fabulous Bear and Hare series for younger readers, as well as the beautiful Tidy , Old Hat, Cyril and Pat and Meerkat Christmas .Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett is a great animal story to use in EYFS and KS1 when covering a journeys or animals topic. Emily Gravett is twice winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal and the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Bronze Award for Wolves and Little Mouse's Big Book Of Fears. Wolves was received with great acclaim across the children’s book world, winning many prizes including the prestigious CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal.

But Sunny is starting to feel claustrophobic and decides to set off to stay with his mongoose cousins and explore the outside world. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. But from the watery world of the Marsh Mongoose to the nocturnal lifestyle of the Malagasy Mongoose, Sunny just doesn’t fit in. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Together they imitate and then imagine visiting a string of real animals, from penguins to kangaroos, whose glorious images fill the pages.Distinctive illustrations and lift-the-flap postcards make it a joy to share with children, who will also enjoy spotting the shadowy jackal lurking in the background of each picture. There’s so much to enjoy, from the newspaper cuttings on the endpapers to the wittily accurate information about each mongoose species Sunny visits on his journey. The pages feel quite interactive as there are postcards to lift up so it's engaging for younger readers. Wolves, her first picture book was published in August 2005 and marked the beginning of an internationally stellar career creating extraordinary books for children including Orange Pear Apple Bear, Meerkat Mail and Matilda’s Cat. But from the watery world of the Marsh Mongoose to the nocturnal lifestyle of the Malagasy Mongoose, Sunny just doesn't fit in.