Contact Emma Chinnery
For all book illustration enquires please contact Emma’s literary agent Claire Cartey: claire@holroydecartey.com
For other illustration commissions please contact Emma: hello@emmachinnery.com
About Emma
Emma Chinnery is a British illustrator and writer living in Suffolk.
She is the author-illustrator of children’s picture books My Friend Andy (Little Tiger) and We Grew a Dragon (Bloomsbury). And is the illustrator of Enchanted Beach written by Esther Freud (Walker Books).
Emma graduated with a Distinction in MA Children's Book Illustration from the Cambridge School of Art (2021).
Publications:
We Grew a Dragon - Bloomsbury (January 2026)
Enchanted Beach written by Esther Freud - Walker Books (June 2025)
My Friend Andy - Little Tiger Press (March 2024)
Awards:
Shortlisted Federation of Children’s Book Group Awards 2025 - My Friend Andy
Highly Commended - Macmillan Prize for Illustration 2021
Finalist - Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrator’s Exhibition 2021
Special Mention - Illustration for Older Fiction Prize 2021