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. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. 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. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit.

Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall). The pages feel quite interactive as there are postcards to lift up so it's engaging for younger readers. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit.Emily Gravett is a graduate of Brighton University and winner of the 2004 Macmillan Prize for Illustration. Sunny lives on an arid plain with his extensive and loving meerkat family; they work together, play together and together do their best to stay away from jackals! You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. and the fabulous Bear and Hare series for younger readers, as well as the beautiful Tidy , Old Hat, Cyril and Pat and Meerkat Christmas . Emily has also illustrated Cave Baby which was written by the former children’s laureate Julia Donaldson.

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.Emily Gravett's colourful yet sparse illustrations cleverly depict a bumbling bear interacting in many different and imaginative ways with the fruit mentioned in the title. In 2008 Emily was awarded the rare honour of a second CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal for LITTLE MOUSE'S BIG BOOK OF FEARS. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin.

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. Her first picture book WOLVES was published in August 2005 to great acclaim, winning the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal and a clutch of other awards it marked the beginning of a stellar career creating extraordinary books for children. And what I love as well as a parent is that the book teaches about the importance of keeping in touch with the wider family as well as how great it is to go traveling but always come back home. With seven giant glossy postcards attached to the pages, this beautiful book is rich with comic detail and will keep any child entertained for hours. He journeys through rain and shine and light and dark, reporting back to his family via a series of postcards.Meerkat Mail is a brilliant picture book from Emily Gravett, the winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal. Emily first sprang into the limelight with the ground-breaking Wolves , which has been followed by such modern classics as Meerkat Mail , Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears , Monkey and Me and Again! My son really enjoys reading it or me reading it to him, or sometimes just looking through and reading just the postcards! I was a little disappointed with the finish of the book because I had to glue several of the flaps back down before I'd even read it. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Sunny the Meerkat lives in the Kalahari desert but one day Sunny decides to pack his bags and visit his mongoose cousins. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. But Sunny is starting to feel claustrophobic and decides to set off to stay with his mongoose cousins and explore the outside world.Wolves was received with great acclaim across the children’s book world, winning many prizes including the prestigious CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. But from the watery world of the Marsh Mongoose to the nocturnal lifestyle of the Malagasy Mongoose, Sunny just doesn’t fit in. In 2008 Emily was awarded her second CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal for Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears. 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. But from the watery world of the Marsh Mongoose to the nocturnal lifestyle of the Malagasy Mongoose, Sunny just doesn't fit in.