Emma Chichester Clark - Children's Author

Emma Chichester Clark studied at the Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of Art, where she was taught by Quentin Blake. She has worked as a freelance illustrator for various magazines including New Scientist, Cosmopolitan and The Sunday Times, for publishers and advertising agencies as well as teaching art for several years, and has also illustrated numerous book jackets. 

In 1988 she won the Mother Goose Award for her first book, Listen to This!, an anthology compiled by Laura Cecil. She also won the Kate Greenaway medal in 1988. Since then, she has become internationally known, illustrating writers such as Roald Dahl, Peter Dickinson, Anne Fine and Margaret Mahy. Emma was the first winner of the newly created Grinzane Junior Award for I Love you, Blue Kangaroo.

Emma was born in London but raised in Ireland. She started drawing "just about as soon as I could hold a pencil. But I could never find enough paper and my mother wouldn't let me use her Basildon Bond. So secretly I used to tear the blank pages out of her grown-up books and draw on them and make my own little books."

 

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Featured Books, with extracts by Emma Chichester Clark

Come to School Too, Blue Kangaroo!
Emma Chichester Clark
Best-selling Emma Chichester Clark has created a perfect story for all children about to start a new school. Lily is nervous about starting a new school but luckily she has Blue Kangaroo to help her! Blue Kangaroo is really looking...
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/04/2013
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Come to School Too, Blue Kangaroo!
Emma Chichester Clark
Best-selling Emma Chichester Clark has created a perfect story for all children about to start a new school. Lily is nervous about starting a new school but luckily she has Blue Kangaroo to help her! Blue Kangaroo is really looking...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/08/2012
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No More Kissing!
Emma Chichester Clark
A must-have for all who hate being kissed! Momo the little monkey hates kissing. He hates other people kissing each other but, most of all, he hates being kissed himself! But when Momo has a new baby brother, by mistake...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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Alice in Wonderland
Emma Chichester Clark
The extraordinary adventures of Alice after she falls down a rabbit hole and finds herself in a world where everything is completely topsy turvy are magnificently captured in Emma Chichester Clark’s glorious illustrations. Down a hole lined with beautiful things...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Minty And Tink
Emma Chichester Clark
The importance of a special toy is perfectly captured in this passionate story about how a toy can be ‘real’.  When searching for a birthday present for her baby brother, Minty finds a tiny toy bear who can talk. Instantly,...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2009
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Amazing Mr Zooty!
Emma Chichester Clark
A magically quirky picture book featuring the ever-helpful Mr Zooty who likes nothing more than to help anyone he meets to succeed in what they want to do. It’s a zany, upbeat story of unselfish behaviour reaping its just rewards....
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2007
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