Career ĭuring her second year as a student, Gravett entered one of her school projects for the Macmillan Prize for Children's Illustration, a competitive annual award to art students established in 1985. She works in an attic studio "with views of the South Downs". Īs of June 2008, she lives in Brighton with Mik and Olly. She matriculated that September and graduated three years later. The family returned to Brighton in 2001, where persistence rather than qualifications got her an interview for the illustration degree course at the local university. Gravett "realised that I wanted a career, and drawing was my only skill", so she began an art course. īy 1997, they had settled in Wales and had a daughter, Oleander (Olly). She left school at 16 with a GCSE qualification only in Art (grade A) and travelled Great Britain for eight years, living in "a variety of vehicles" and meeting her partner Mik. After her parents separated, she lived with her mother, but she and her father would "go out drawing" in museums. For her debut book Wolves published in 2005 and Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears published three years later, she won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal recognising the year's best-illustrated British children's book.Įmily Gravett was born in Brighton, England, the second daughter of a printmaker father and an art teacher mother. English children's book author and illustratorĮmily Gravett (born 1972) is an English author and illustrator of children's picture books.
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