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 Week Junior Book Awards 2024, Children’s Book of the Year: Animals and Nature for The Tyrannosaurs's Feathers.
Emmett has also written and paper-engineered several novelty books including, Alphabet Street and One Cat, Two Cats.
Life 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 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. He has since written over seventy children's books and his work has been translated into 40 different languages.
He lives in Nottingham, England.
Publications +Books by Jonathan EmmettTitle Illustrator Original Publisher YearDoohickey and the Robot Oxford University Press 1999 Goblin Stew Bloomsbury Books 2000Serpent Soup Bloomsbury Books 2000Ghostly Goulash Bloomsbury Books 2000Fairy Cake Bloomsbury Books 2000Ten Little Monsters Kingfisher 2000Fox's New Coat Puffin Books 2000Dinosaurs After Dark HarperCollins 2001Bringing Down the Moon Walker Books 2001Cosmo for Captain Oxford University Press 2002 Hodder Books 2002 Hodder Books 2002 Terry Takes Off Oxford University Press 2003Through the Heart of the Jungle Hodder Books 2003Someone Bigger Oxford University Press 2003Ruby Flew Too! / Once Upon a Time, Upon a Nest Macmillan Publishers 2004What Friends Do Best HarperCollins 2004Creature Colours Gullane 2004Robots HarperCollins 2005No Place Like Home Walker Books 2005Pigs Might Fly Puffin Books 2005Safari Shapes Gullane 2005ZOOM! Macmillan Publishers 2005This Way Ruby! Macmillan Publishers 2005Rabbits Day Off Gullane 2006Captain Comet and the Purple Planet Oxford University Press 2006If We Had a Sailboat Oxford University Press 2006She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain Egmont Books 2006Dig it! Build it! Macmillan Publishers 2006Diamond in the Snow Walker Books 2006I Love You Always and Forever Gullane 2007Captain Comet and the Dog Star Oxford University Press 2007Tom's Clockwork Dragon Oxford University Press 2008 Walker Books 2008Emergency Rescue Macmillan Publishers 2008Go For It, Ruby! Macmillan Publishers 2009Leaf Trouble Chicken House 2009 Macmillan Publishers 2009Bones and Steve Lumb HarperCollins 2010MONSTERS – An Owner's Guide Macmillan Publishers 2010Pirate Pussycat Simon & Schuster 2010 Walker Books 2010Foxes in the Snow Macmillan Publishers 2010 Orchard Books 2011ALIENS – An Owner's Guide Macmillan Publishers 2011 Macmillan Publishers 2011 Walker Books 2011Tyrannosaurus Rocks! Simon & Schuster 2011Wanda Wallaby Finds Her Bounce Bloomsbury Books 2012Callum's Incredible Construction Kit Egmont Books 2012Here Be Monsters Macmillan Publishers 2013Skyboy and other Stupendous Science Stories , Kevin Hopgood, Alex Patterson and Yannick Robert Oxford University Press 2014Danny Dreadnought Saves the World Egmont Books 2015 Walker Books 2015 Oxford University Press 2015Fast and Furry Racers: The Silver Serpent Cup Oxford University Press 2015 Egmont Books 2015Town Underground Cambridge University Press 2016Clever Computers Cambridge University Press 2016Prince Ribbit Macmillan Publishers 2016Scoop's Ups and Downs Oxford University Press 2017How the Borks Became Otter-Barry Books 2018Cleopatra Bones and the Golden Chimpanzee Oxford University Press 2018Alphabet Street Nosy Crow 2018A Present for Rosy Walker Books 2020 (with Dr Adam S. Smith) UCLan Publishing 2021Christmas Street Nosy Crow 2021 Templar Books 2022 (with Dr Adam S. Smith) UCLan Publishing 2023Number Train Nosy Crow 2024Monster Makeovers Boxer Books 2025One Cat, Two Cats Nosy Crow 2025
References
External links
Official website Emmett's blog Jonathan Emmett's Society of Authors profile page Jonathan Emmett's page on Walker Books website