A guide to Emily Gravett's books

This delightful and funny exploration of colour and imagination is perfect for reading aloud to very young children. On each page, the four words of the title are rearranged to create a series of playful images, full of energy and joy. 

All the birds have eggs to hatch, except Duck. So when Duck finds an egg of his own to look after he's delighted. But all the other birds think it's a very odd egg indeed – and everyone's in for a BIG surprise when it finally hatches. A beautifully illustrated and cleverly formatted tale with a surprise ending, toddlers will love The Odd Egg. 

Wolves, Emily Gravett's debut book, won her the Macmillan Prize for Illustration and her first CILIP Kate Greenaway Award. Rabbit has borrowed a book about wolves from the library – and it seems to be coming to life. A sinister figure, complete with sharp claws and a bushy tail, has started to creep off the pages. . . You won't believe your eyes – but if you're a rabbit, you probably should.

A hopeful little frog tries to turn himself into a handsome prince by piecing together the torn pages of a spell book. There's just one problem – although Frog knows all about magical spells, spelling is another matter . . .

Could you read it again? Pleeease? Cedric is supposed to be going to bed. There's just time for his mum to read him his favourite book. And maybe again? Just more one time? A cross dragon is a fiery dragon: what will happen if his mum says no?

Harbet really wants to keep up with the latest thing. He swaps his comfy knitted hat for all sorts of trendy alternatives – fruit, a boot, a traffic cone – but everything turns out to be old hat. Then, Harbet decides to go his own way, and discovers just how much fun it is to stop following others and think for yourself.

Young readers will love the funny, inventive details – including a baby rabbit record book and rabbit newspaper – in this journey through a calendar year in the company of rabbits Lonely and Chalk. 

Cyril is the only squirrel in Lake Park, and he's very lonely. Until one day he meets Pat – Pat the big, grey . . . other squirrel. Cyril and Pat have lots of adventures and fun together and Cyril is so pleased he's made a friend. But everyone says that Cyril and Pat simply cannot be friends, and they soon reveal why: Pat is perhaps not actually a squirrel. But is being the same really that important?