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Emily Gravett.

Writer & illustrator · United Kingdom · b. 1972

Emily Gravett: double-Greenaway-winning British picture-book maker (Wolves, Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears, Meerkat Mail) — playful, subtly subversive, with serious giftability for ages 3–7.

Emily Gravett is a British author-illustrator born in 1972, one of the most distinctive contemporary picture-book makers in UK publishing. Her debut Wolves (2005) won the Kate Greenaway Medal and she won it again for Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears (2008), a rare double winner. Her body of work, Meerkat Mail, The Odd Egg, Tidy, Cyril and Pat, Too Much Stuff, is characterised by playful book-as-object design (envelopes, postcards, lift-the-flap structure), warm-but-not-twee humour, and gentle subversion of picture-book conventions. Strong giftability and read-aloud quality for ages 3–7. A core contemporary UK picture-book voice with serious staying power.