| Jonathan Emmett | |
| Birth Date: | 10 December 1965 |
| Birth Place: | Leicester, England |
| Alma Mater: | University of Nottingham |
| Occupation: | author, pop-up designer |
| Known For: | Bringing Down the Moon, Someone Bigger and The Princess and the Pig |
Jonathan Emmett (born 10 December 1965) is a British children's author and pop-up book designer. He is best known for his picture books including Bringing Down the Moon, Someone Bigger and The Princess and the Pig. His books have won several awards including the Red House Children's Book Award for Pigs Might Fly and the Sheffield Children's Book Award for The Pig's Knickers.[1]
Emmett has also written and paper-engineered several novelty books including, Emergency Rescue and Alphabet Street.[2]
Jonathan Emmett was born in Leicestershire in 1965. Best known as a picture book author, his writing is inspired and influenced by the picture books he read as a child including Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss. Emmett developed his writing and illustration skills while at the University of Nottingham[3] studying architecture. He began writing and illustrating children's books in his spare time while working as an architect, but left the profession to pursue a career in children's literature.[4] He has since written over sixty children's books[5] and his work has been translated into over 30 different languages.[6]
He lives in Nottingham, England.[7]
| Title | Illustrator | Original Publisher | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doohickey and the Robot | 1999 | |||
| Goblin Stew | 2000 | |||
| Serpent Soup | 2000 | |||
| Ghostly Goulash | 2000 | |||
| Fairy Cake | 2000 | |||
| Ten Little Monsters | Kingfisher | 2000 | ||
| Fox's New Coat | 2000 | |||
| Dinosaurs After Dark | 2001 | |||
| Bringing Down the Moon | 2001 | |||
| Cosmo for Captain | 2002 | |||
| Hodder Books | 2002 | |||
| Hodder Books | 2002 | |||
| Terry Takes Off | 2003 | |||
| Through the Heart of the Jungle | Hodder Books | 2003 | ||
| Someone Bigger | 2003 | |||
| Ruby Flew Too! / Once Upon a Time, Upon a Nest | 2004 | |||
| What Friends Do Best | 2004 | |||
| Creature Colours | Gullane | 2004 | ||
| Robots | 2005 | |||
| No Place Like Home | 2005 | |||
| Pigs Might Fly | 2005 | |||
| Safari Shapes | Gullane | 2005 | ||
| ZOOM! | 2005 | |||
| This Way Ruby! | 2005 | |||
| Rabbits Day Off | Gullane | 2006 | ||
| Captain Comet and the Purple Planet | 2006 | |||
| If We Had a Sailboat | 2006 | |||
| She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain | 2006 | |||
| Dig it! Build it | 2006 | |||
| Diamond in the Snow | 2006 | |||
| I Love You Always and Forever | Gullane | 2007 | ||
| Captain Comet and the Dog Star | 2007 | |||
| Tom's Clockwork Dragon | 2008 | |||
| 2008 | ||||
| Emergency Rescue | 2008 | |||
| Go For It, Ruby! | 2009 | |||
| Leaf Trouble | 2009 | |||
| 2009 | ||||
| Bones | and Steve Lumb | 2010 | ||
| MONSTERS – An Owner's Guide | 2010 | |||
| Pirate Pussycat | 2010 | |||
| 2010 | ||||
| Foxes in the Snow | 2010 | |||
| 2011 | ||||
| ALIENS – An Owner's Guide | 2011 | |||
| 2011 | ||||
| 2011 | ||||
| Tyrannosaurus Rocks! | 2011 | |||
| Wanda Wallaby Finds Her Bounce | 2012 | |||
| Callum's Incredible Construction Kit | 2012 | |||
| Here Be Monsters | 2013 | |||
| Skyboy and other Stupendous Science Stories | , Kevin Hopgood, Alex Patterson and Yannick Robert | 2014 | ||
| Danny Dreadnought Saves the World | 2015 | |||
| 2015 | ||||
| 2015 | ||||
| Fast and Furry Racers: The Silver Serpent Cup | 2015 | |||
| 2015 | ||||
| Town Underground | 2016 | |||
| Clever Computers | 2016 | |||
| Prince Ribbit | 2016 | |||
| Scoop's Ups and Downs | 2017 | |||
| How the Borks Became | Otter-Barry Books | 2018 | ||
| Cleopatra Bones and the Golden Chimpanzee | 2018 | |||
| Alphabet Street | 2018 | |||
| A Present for Rosy | 2020 | |||
| (with Dr Adam S. Smith) | UCLan Publishing | 2021 | ||
| Christmas Street | 2021 | |||
| Templar Books | 2022 | |||
| (with Dr Adam S. Smith) | UCLan Publishing | 2023 | ||
| Number Train | 2024 |