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Orange Pear Apple Bear
In only five words -- four of which are in the title -- Kate Greenaway Medalist Emily Gravett presents a delightful picture book that is "simple and stunning" (The Guardian), and "daring, original, and a joy" (Sunday Times, London).
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
May 22nd 2007
by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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Sep 01, 2009
Ceridwen
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
punctuation nerds
Recommended to Ceridwen by:
Aunt Kerrie
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A truly lovely little children's book about the pleasures of punctuation, specifically the comma. No, no, come back! Jeez, it's not that bad. The four words of the title are repeated and rearranged, with sweet watercolor sketches as illustrations.
Mid-book there's a page with the words "Apple, pear", and a sketch of a pear atop an apple. The next is "Orange bear" with - of course! - an orange bear. I love me a sight gag, and a sight gag based on punctuation is the bee's knees. The "pear bear" wi...more
Mid-book there's a page with the words "Apple, pear", and a sketch of a pear atop an apple. The next is "Orange bear" with - of course! - an orange bear. I love me a sight gag, and a sight gag based on punctuation is the bee's knees. The "pear bear" wi...more
Just five little words arranged and rearranged with delightful little illustrations to match. Since this is an ideal book for the younger set (under three) I highly recommend the board book format!
This would be a great baby shower or first birthday present!
This would be a great baby shower or first birthday present!
May 01, 2012
Catherine McDonald
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Orange Pear Apple Bear by Emily Gravett
This is such a beautiful book about a bear and fruit! Only four words go into this whimsical story but it is the illustrations that capture the children’s attentions. The illustrations are loose watercolours that suit the quirky nature of this book perfectly. Children laugh with joy at the simplicity of it and I would recommend it for anyone who loves beautiful books. It is a great book to use in the Foundation Stage or possibly in Key Stage one for those j...more
This is such a beautiful book about a bear and fruit! Only four words go into this whimsical story but it is the illustrations that capture the children’s attentions. The illustrations are loose watercolours that suit the quirky nature of this book perfectly. Children laugh with joy at the simplicity of it and I would recommend it for anyone who loves beautiful books. It is a great book to use in the Foundation Stage or possibly in Key Stage one for those j...more
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Orange Pear Apple Bear, by Emily Gravett (2007)
Picture Book, 28 pages
With its witty and yet simplistic narrative, Orange Pear Apple Bear addresses the basics and still finds a way to challenge what we know. Do pear bears or apple bears exist? With subtle nuances, such as commas and color changes, Gravett uses four words and beautiful pencil and watercolor illustrations to change their meanings. Young ones will be surprised by the quick and quirky change of the story as a silly and playful bear...more
Picture Book, 28 pages
With its witty and yet simplistic narrative, Orange Pear Apple Bear addresses the basics and still finds a way to challenge what we know. Do pear bears or apple bears exist? With subtle nuances, such as commas and color changes, Gravett uses four words and beautiful pencil and watercolor illustrations to change their meanings. Young ones will be surprised by the quick and quirky change of the story as a silly and playful bear...more
This delightful picture book that only features 5 words in the whole book is about the importance of punctuation, in particular, the comma. Emily Gravett uses the simple illustrations to emphasize the ordering of the words "orange", "apple", "pear", and "bear". ("There" is only used at the end of the book).
This book would be recommended for children at a very young age; I would say 3 years and younger.
I work at a daycare and we use this type of concept books to help children recognize objects...more
This book would be recommended for children at a very young age; I would say 3 years and younger.
I work at a daycare and we use this type of concept books to help children recognize objects...more
Orange Pear Apple Bear is an insanely cute book. Using the four words in the title, Emily Gravett uses the words to create multiple phrases. The main character is a bear and he begins the book by looking at and thinking about the fruit, then he decides to play with the different fruit. After he plays around with them, he decides to eat them and enjoys them greatly. The illustrations are amazing. I absolutely love the smooth lines of watercolor and the fun ways that the bear changes throughout th...more
I loved this book. It was amazing how Gravett took 4 simple words and developed them into a number of different concepts. The objects were initially introduced separately, but each new page mixed up the words to create a number of different colored fruits and a bear. This book demonstrated the power of a few simple words, and how simply, by mixing them up, you can create a number of different ideas. I have read this book aloud to children at my daycare, and they loved it. It goes along well with...more
Title:
Orange Pear Apple Bear
Author:
Emily Gravett
Publisher and Year:
Simon and Schuster, 2007
Genre: Educational; fiction
Ages: 1 - 4
Synopsis: A book with little plot, Orange Pear Apple Bear consists of those four words in different combinations, with illustrations to match. The only real character in this book is the Bear, and the illustrations show the interactions the different items have with each other when they are written in different orders and combinations.
Reaction?: I LOVED the illustrati...more
Orange Pear Apple Bear
Author:
Emily Gravett
Publisher and Year:
Simon and Schuster, 2007
Genre: Educational; fiction
Ages: 1 - 4
Synopsis: A book with little plot, Orange Pear Apple Bear consists of those four words in different combinations, with illustrations to match. The only real character in this book is the Bear, and the illustrations show the interactions the different items have with each other when they are written in different orders and combinations.
Reaction?: I LOVED the illustrati...more
Using the same 5 words this concept book explores food, shapes, and colors. The book features a bear and a handful of fruit. First, the book establishes what each item looks like on its own. Then Gravett begins mixing and matching, a pear stacked on an apple, an apple colored bear, an orange pear, etc.
The pencil and watercolor illustrations are charming. There’s something about a pear-shaped, pear-colored bear that just makes me giggle. You might think it’s impossible to create an interesting s...more
The pencil and watercolor illustrations are charming. There’s something about a pear-shaped, pear-colored bear that just makes me giggle. You might think it’s impossible to create an interesting s...more
Teaching basic concepts to children doesn’t get much simpler than using four words in Emily Gravett’s popular children’s book, Orange Pear Apple Bear. This book is only written using the four words from the title that are rearranged in different orders to create a new scene. Each page is designed to challenge the reader to identify the items through context clues. Based on the order of the words, students must analyze the specific meaning of the phrase to fully appreciate each illustration. The...more
Emily Gravett did a great job with this concept children's book. Emily really gets the mind going when it deals with perspectives in this book. This book in particular shows when something can be turned around and how it is effected. This book is great for young elementary kids and you can teach them a lesson on perspectives. This book is great for teaching a child a lesson on how everyone sees things differently. Emily makes a comical illustration while keeping a structured story line that tell...more
“Orange Pear, Apple Bear”- written and illustrated by Emily Gravett is a charming Children’s concept book that explores the four words- Orange, Pear, Apple, and Bear. Gravett explores the four different words by combining them to make an orange bear, or apple bear- a bear which looks like an apple. By using different combinations, Gravett adds humor to the book by portraying the bear as taking on the colors and shape of a fruit. The watercolor and pencil illustrations add to the charm to the boo...more
This book is precious. It utilizes only a few words to emphasize the importance of word placement and punctuation. The illustrations are very simple, careful to not take over the text but assist in displaying what is being said. Each page has a few words in which describes the pictures exactly. This book would be ideal for a developing or new reader primarily because it doesn't offer long conceptual sentences. Instead it has short, choppy sentences with barely any meaning except to describe the...more
Orange Pear Apple Bear is a cute concept book to introduce rhyming words with different meanings to Kindergarten level readers. This short story uses only the four words, orange, pear, apple, and bear and rearranges them in rhythmic tone to create new concepts for students to think about. Emily Gravett introduces children to orange bears and apple bears while providing colorful illustrations for children to add to their imagination. This book is great for young kids to learn concepts but could a...more
Orange Pear Apple Bear is a cute story using only five words; including the four from the title. Emily Gravett does an amazing job, as usual, illustrating the soft cuddly bear who changes colors, shapes and colors as he balances and juggles an orange, pear and apple- which he eventually eats. The end papers of this book resemble an orange peel, and a pear and apple core- demonsrating the bear ate the fruit. Gravett is brillant in maximizing the humor of the word play by skillfully placing page l...more
This concept book is directed towards toddlers and does an excellent job showing the difference between an orange, pear, bear, and apple. It was tongue twisting at times, but I think younger children enjoy that. I enjoyed how the book rhymed but also wasn’t just a simple book with a picture of a pear or apple on each page. It showed what the bear could do with a pear, orange, and apple. The four words apple, bear, pear, and orange were the only words used, but I enjoyed how Emily Gravett took th...more
This deceptively simple picture book uses only 5 words. The author uses those 5 words in a number of inventive combinations illustrating color, shapes and sequencing. The story begins when you open the book and see whole oranges, apples and pears and ends at the back of the book with orange peels and apple and pear cores. In between, the bear balances and juggles the fruit and changes shape and color. The water color illustrations add to the fun.
Suggest this book children in preschool and up. Th...more
Suggest this book children in preschool and up. Th...more
This lovely little book is not only an example of well done demonstration of the concepts of colors and shapes, but it teaches the power of commas on meaning. This could serve the same purpose as Eats, Shoots, And Leaves, but for a much younger audience. Gravett's whimsical illustrations make me happy (Bear has a butt shaped like an apple! I knew he was an apple bottom!), but they also serve the text very well in clarifying concepts. I LOVE this book.
Good for: storytimes for 5 and under, teacher...more
Good for: storytimes for 5 and under, teacher...more
Orange Pear Apple Bear is a great children's book. The entire book is written using only five words and it still kept me interested. We are introduced to bear, an orange, a pear and an apple. Throughout the book there is a mixture of the words along with punctuation to make for a very cute book. Although there are only a few words, the way the words are arranged with the use of some punctuation the book doesn't seem repetitive. The arrangement of words, "Orange Pear or Apple Bear" are illustrate...more
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Orange, Pear, Apple, Bear is an artistic new board book from author Emily Gravett. The book is simple and sweet. At first, I wasn’t sure how Lil Guy would take the text which consists only of the four words: apple, pear, orange, and bear. Sometime the words are used as nouns while sometimes the words are adjectives (or words that describe). One page shows an orange bear while another shows a pear (shaped) bear. The combinations are clever and imaginative...more
Orange, Pear, Apple, Bear is an artistic new board book from author Emily Gravett. The book is simple and sweet. At first, I wasn’t sure how Lil Guy would take the text which consists only of the four words: apple, pear, orange, and bear. Sometime the words are used as nouns while sometimes the words are adjectives (or words that describe). One page shows an orange bear while another shows a pear (shaped) bear. The combinations are clever and imaginative...more
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This book is a concept book, and the publisher suggested it for ages 1-4. I think that the age range should be higher, because it attempts to involve the concept of dual meanings and grammatical syntax.. Gravett only uses 5 words throughout the book, and uses the illustrations to convey the meaning. The first few pages show an orange, a pear, an apple, and a bear. The next page shows an apple and a pear, and the next page shows an orange bear, followed by an orange pear. Thus, the differe...more
This book is a concept book, and the publisher suggested it for ages 1-4. I think that the age range should be higher, because it attempts to involve the concept of dual meanings and grammatical syntax.. Gravett only uses 5 words throughout the book, and uses the illustrations to convey the meaning. The first few pages show an orange, a pear, an apple, and a bear. The next page shows an apple and a pear, and the next page shows an orange bear, followed by an orange pear. Thus, the differe...more
Such a playful use of language and punctuation! Just 5 words tell the entire story which leaves you smiling. A great way to introduce the concept of punctuation, particularly commas, to toddlers and young elementary children. I would also consider bringing this book in as an activity for middle school or high school students. Perhaps this could be an example to an assignment you could give to students, to use limited words and punctuation to tell a short story.
Beautiful watercolor paintings!
Beautiful watercolor paintings!
Wonderful book for Music educators teaching ta and ti-ti (Kodaly based method) in the First grade! More practice in music reading and writing (music literacy) for our students. The whole book can easily, easily be a dictation exercise. Simple humor, beautiful artwork too. Four words only - many, many ways to model expressiveness in the reading of this with children. Simple and repetetive enough for our ELL (English Language Learners)to follow as well. Quality educational literature.
This book is a wonderful addition to the list of great books for babies.
It only has FOUR words (five, actually- if you count the last page)... all of which are in the title. It's incredibly creative and the pictures are so humorous and expressive. The words are all easy words that little kids can recognize. So many books for babies are overly complicated and wordy- but this one is just right. This is one of the few books that I think would convert into a fantastic board book.. plenty of white sp...more
It only has FOUR words (five, actually- if you count the last page)... all of which are in the title. It's incredibly creative and the pictures are so humorous and expressive. The words are all easy words that little kids can recognize. So many books for babies are overly complicated and wordy- but this one is just right. This is one of the few books that I think would convert into a fantastic board book.. plenty of white sp...more
In this book by Emily Gravett, she uses five words in the entire book to develop a concept. The words and pictures work together to make sense of what is being told. This book would be great for younger children trying to connect words with pictures and real-life. Students can see pictures of an orange, a pear, an apple and a bear. This is not a book for older students but it is great for younger kids and even for a Kindergartener who is having trouble with concepts.
Orange, Pear, Apple, Bear I thought was wonderful. It is a simple easy read. The illustrations were simple, but I appreciated the simplicity of the drawings. An aspect that may be overlooked is the front cover and back cover. The front cover has the fruits in tacked and on the back cover all that's left is the core of the different types of fruit. I would recommend this book to anyone. I think that it would be for kindergardeners, but any age would like it!
This book is very simple. Since it only has about five words that it uses, it's for very young children. The pictures were cute too because they always showed exactly what the pictures were saying. I thought it was cute and teaches the conept of bears, pears, oranges, and apples. It may not be my favorite concept book but I would read this to my class. I think it would keep children's attention because it they would like how the words are always scrambled around.
Orang Pear Apple Bear by Emily Gravett was a really cute primary book. I noticed that once you open this book there are apples, pears and oranges repeatedly going across the page. Once I flipped to the title page there was the bear and his three fruits. This book is teaching young children what an orange, pear and apple look like, as well as the bear. Then it starts to turn the bear into the color of the fruits and the shapes. I know many children would LOVE to read this book, because its visual...more
Basically the book consists of different combinations of the four words in the title of the book and each combination is accompanied by an appropriate illustration. The fact that there are only these words through the book (and one additional word at the end) means that my daughter who is three and two/thirds can read it to herself. I'll be looking out for more books like this in the near future to help her as she begins to learn to read.
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Emily has finished her final year of an illustration degree at Brighton University.
She lives in Brighton with her daughter.
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Feb 08, 2011 09:06am
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Feb 08, 2011 09:21am
Yay! I'll have to put in at the library for these.
Feb 08, 2011 09:38am