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'The Cranky Caterpillar' is a children's picture book recently published with Thames and Hudson. Please click on this short animation to the right to see more about this story or to buy on amazon click here.
This story is also on the national curriculum for a week long literacy and science scheme of work, available to download on the TES website here.
Selected reviews:
‘A discernibly astute story about the struggle with our emotions, so empathetically illustrated by Richard Graham..an understated masterpiece’ Sarah Yewman from picturebooksblogger
'Absolutely Astonishing. Astounding piece of work' Raymond Briggs, creator of 'The Snowman'
‘The Cranky Caterpillar is a magical book of art. I want to frame every page…’ Hannah ZiesDream Reader books.
One day Ezra hears a gloomy blue tune coming from the piano. To her suprise, it's a caterpillar making the sound: a cranky caterpillar. Ezra tries to cheer him up with some fresh air, cakes, and new hats, but nothing seems to work..What can Ezra do to help the cranky caterpillar change his tune?
Richard Graham is a new illustrator with a highly distinctive and original style. The origins of 'The Cranky Caterpillar' lie in his own artistic sculptural creations: a caterpillar created from the hammers inside an old piano, a band of musical characters, all sculpted from instruments and materials found in his studio. Graham has also been inspired by Wassily Kandinsky's colour synesthesia, whereby we are shown the magical colours of music, in this splendidly illustrated book. Children will identify with the struggle the caterpillar goes through, in trying to articulate his emotions, and will delight in the inventive band of friends that succeed in cheering him up.
'absolutely astonishing . . . an astounding piece of work’ Raymond Briggs, creator of The Snowman