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Mr Big

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Vere travelled to Kenya in early 2019 to explore, paint and write about Born Free’s work. Writing about and painting lions, their natural habitats and the local populations they live alongside. Discovering the work Born Free does to ensure that the world's remaining 20000 wild lions have a secure and sustainable future. Ed and Born Free will be publishing a book in 2022. There will also be an exhibition and fund-raising auction.

Ed was the World Book Day illustrator for 2009 and the official illustrator for Hay Fever, Hay Festival in 2009. He has also been an invited speaker at many literary festivals in the UK and internationally, including;Hay Festival,Bath Festival,Edinburgh International Book festival in the UK.And;Cuirt International Book Festival, Galway, Ireland;Towers and Tales, Waterford, Ireland;International Literarture Festival, Dublin;Guadalajara FIL, Mexico (British Council); Hay Festival Kerala, India (British Council); Flupp International literature festival, Rio, Brazil (British Council);VallettaFestival of Children's Literature, Malta (British Council) What is empathy? ‘T he ability to understand and experience the feelings of others, and to respond in helpful ways.’

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Vere is the 2020 Illustrator in Residence for Booktrust. While there he will champion drawing in primary education and attempt to start a national conversation about the benefits of drawing for mental health. Ed has worked extensively in schools across the UK and abroad running reading and drawing workshops. He has also been an invited speaker at many literary festivals in the UK and internationally, including;Hay Festival, Bath Festival, Edinburgh International Book festival, Cuirt International Book Festival, Galway, Ireland, Hay Festival Kerala, India (British Council), Flupp International literature festival, Rio, Brazil (British Council), Valletta Festival of Children's Literature, Malta (British Council). In late 2015, he went with the British Council to FIL Guadalajara, Mexico.

Ed Vere is an award winning and New York Times bestselling writer & illustrator of picture books. He is a patron at CLPE and isthe artist in residence at the Born Free Foundation. Bedtime for Monsters' was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize in 2011 and the next year Ed had the honour of being one of the four Roald Dahl Funny Prize judges, along with Michael Rosen.The story is about what appears to be a monkey (though it is not made explicit) named Mr. Big, who due to his size, is assumed by others to be scary. This results in Mr. Big feeling lonely and isolated which ultimately leads him to take up piano playing which he is very talented at. Upon hearing the music across the city, everyone begins to wander who can possibly be playing such beautiful music. Once it is revealed to the others that it is in fact the 'scary' Mr.Big, their perceptions of him change and the story ends with Mr. Big not at all lonely, but instead happy and surrounded with friends.



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