Tidy
What's Tidy About
Pete the badger learns that being tidy isn’t always the best thing in this save-the-environment picture book from award-winning author and illustrator Emily Gravett. Pete the badger likes everything to be neat and tidy at all times, but what starts as the collecting of one fallen leaf escalates quickly and ends with the complete destruction of the forest. Will Pete realize the error of his ways and reverse his tidying habit?
What Kind of Book is Tidy
Reviews
This badger loves to clean, and he takes it to quite the extreme! He cleans the forest so much that he realizes the forest isn't there anymore. Once he realizes his mistake, he does what he can to fix it (with the help of his friends). This book is a great conversation starter about how we all make mistakes, and realizing that is the first step in fixing them. :) It's a pretty fun book, the only thing I didn't love was the rhyme sequence on the very last page. Beyond that, the text was great and the illustrations were fun!
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The Creative Behind the Book
Emily Gravett was born in Brighton, England, the second daughter of a printmaker and an art teacher. She left school at 16 and travelled the UK for eight years, living in a big green bus with her partner and their daughter. After returning to Brighton to take up an art degree, Emily sprang into the limelight with the ground-breaking Wolves in 2005, which won her the Macmillan Prize for Illustration, followed by a book deal and the first of her Kate Greenaway Medals. Wolves was followed by such brilliant modern classics as Orange Pear Apple Bear, Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears, Again! and the exquisite Tidy. 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. Emily now lives in Brighton with her family. When not working in her studio, she might be found walking the dog, watering the tomatoes or driving the family’s restored 1960s bus.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9781481480192
- Publication Date
- March 21, 2017
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Original Publication Date
- April 7, 2016
- Page Count
- 40
- Word Count
- 363
- Audience
- Picture
- Reading Age
- 3 - 6 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 2016000239
- Lexile® Level
- AD590L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~O
- ATOS® Book Level
- 3
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 0.5
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 192632
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- LG
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