Open sketchbook page showing a pen sketch by illustrator Emma Quay of a toddler sitting cross legged, staring at a flying ladybird.
Looking at a ladybird. 🐞
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The U.S. edition of HAPPY ALL OVER, a picture book by Emma Quay. The cover illustration shows an arc of colourful raindrops falling and a small child sticking out their tongue to catch one. A puppy follows behind, also sticking its tongue out.
A photograph of books on shelves in the Hachette Group offices in New York.
Happy to say that our family in America will soon be able to walk down the road and see HAPPY ALL OVER in their local bookshop. 🌈 Thank you, @littlebrownyr.bsky.social
The U.S. edition is out on 5 May, but available to preorder. 🌈
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Ahhh! Thank you. 🌈
Illustration by Emma Quay from her picture book HAPPY ALL OVER showing children filling their cups with colourful droplets.
Illustration by Emma Quay from her picture book HAPPY ALL OVER showing children filling their cups with colourful droplets.
Illustration by Emma Quay from her picture book HAPPY ALL OVER showing children filling their cups with colourful droplets.
Illustration by Emma Quay from her picture book HAPPY ALL OVER showing a gurl in the bath ripping water over her head.
It’s World Happiness Day, and here are some children filling their cups… then one emptying hers (and yet still filling it!). 🌈💦 I’ve been illustrating our new book all day, and it has definitely filled mine. ☺️
#worldhappinessday #kidlitart #💙📚
Flicking through my sketchbook…
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An illustration by Emma Quay of a girl with brown skin and brown hair in a purple tracksuit running along holding a home-made paper bird aloft. The branding for the Paper Bird Illustration Exhibition and Thames & Hudson Illustration Award rubs across the bottom of the image.
The branding for the Paper Bird Illustration Exhibition and Thames & Hudson Illustration Award.
So happy to hear that the little girl I painted for the Paper Bird Illustration Exhibition and Thames & Hudson Illustration Award is on the short list.
Thank you, Paper Bird Children’s Books & Arts and Thames & Hudson Australia.
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Thank you, Rachel! 💗
I’ve stuck at this job for a long time and there have been ups and downs, but making books still makes me happy. 😊
A thing like this is a lovely surprise. Thanks so much, @scbwi.bsky.social, and all who voted for HAPPY ALL OVER in the Crystal Kite Awards. I feel honoured… and very happy!
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Sketch in turquoise brush pen by illustrator Emma Quay of a girl jumping up and down holding a littke plastic spoon. A note on the page says, “rainbow tutu socks”.
Shame I only had one colour with me! 🌈🧦🧦 excited girl trying flavours at the ice cream stand. 🥄🍦
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If sketchbooks had Photoshop…
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A pen and coloured pencil sketch by illustrator Emma Quay of a boy in a stripy jumper drawing in the sand with a stick.
Quicksticks. (Does anyone say that any more?) ✍🏻 One of the speediest sketches I’ve done (not sure about the ‘third eye’ fringe line.) A boy at the park drawing in the sandpit.
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Yes! Thanks. :)
Tiny pen and coloured pencil sketch by children’s picture book illustrator Emma Quay of a girl with a brown bob, yellow jumper and blue shorts, spearing to hold a real pencil behind her back, thus showing her scale.
Tiny sketch. How tiny? This tiny! ✏️ #💙📚 #kidlitart
Author-illustrator Emma Quay reading the new paperback edition of her picture book MY SUNBEAM BABY. The cover illustration shows a mother bouncing her baby on her knee, sitting on a hilltop with the sun behind them.
A circle of sun on this rainy day: the paperbacks have arrived! MY SUNBEAM BABY in a new format, and I've always had a soft spot for a paperback. 💛
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An illustration by Emma Quay from the picture book HAPPY ALL OVER. In it, a woman with grey hair sits in an armchair reading to four children who are on her lap and on the arms of the chair. A toddler on the rug at their feet lifts a flap in a board book.
My first ever #KidLitArtPostcard. 💙 I told myself I’d post it on the very next first Thursday after watching @brianlarossa.com’s entertaining and enlightening talk for @scbwi.bsky.social Mid-Atlantic last month (saved up for while I was on my solo residency). Fun to join in… at last! 😊
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Tiny pen and coloured pencil illustration by Emma Quay of a girl carrying a stack of paper. A pen lies on the page nearby.
Tiny pen and coloured pencil illustration by Emma Quay of a girl. A pen lies on the page nearby.
I'm back in my own studio in Sydney, with piles of pencil illustrations going on the scanner, one by one. ✏️✏️✏️
I’m finding rather a lot of tiny pen people in the margins (you'll see how tiny in the 2nd pic). Maybe they’re trying to sneak into the book…
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The cover of the picture book HAPPY ALL OVER by Emma Quay with the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award medallion.
I’m thrilled to discover "Happy All Over" has won the 2025 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award. They are voted on by our community, which makes it feel extra special. 😊
Thank you to all who voted for "Happy All Over" and to SCBWI HQ. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Photograph of a coloured pencil sketch by illustrator Emma Quay of a young girl in an orange jumper and green rain boots watering some young plants with a hose. The page lies on a green painted table with a pair of child’s scissors next to it.
Photograph of a coloured pencil sketch by illustrator Emma Quay of a young girl in an orange jumper and green rain boots watering some young plants with a hose. The page lies on a green painted table.
This little person is going in the May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust journal, as I finish my month-long residency. 🧡 🌱
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Two copies of the picture book MY SUNBEAM BABY by Emma Quay — the hardback and the board book. Cover of the picture book MY SUBEAM BABY by Emma Quay, in hardback. The cover illustration shows a mother bouncing her baby on her knee, sitting on a hilltop with the sun behind them.
A third baby has joined this little family — the paperback of MY SUNBEAM BABY. ☀️☀️☀️ I think there’ll be a few copies at home when I return, so I’ll look forward to taking some pics then. 💛
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An open sketchbook with a coloured pencil sketch by illustrator Emma Quay of a toddler girl walking across the road wearing blue rain boots and a floral aqua and pink anorak. A pink pencil lies on the page.
Do you think someone spotted me drawing her? 👀
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Brush and ink sketch by Emma Quay of a dog walking along a paintbrush, looking back over its shoulder.
Look where you’re going, little doggy.
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Easter leftovers… 🐰
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Quieter days, post-Bologna, with my younger daughter. #💙📚
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Author-illustrators standing in front of Bologna Children’s Book Fair signage.
Emma Quay taping her posters to the Illustrators Wall at Bologna Children’s Book Fair.
Emma Quay holding her picture book HAPPY ALL OVER, in the Australian stand at Bologna Children’s Book Fair.
Author-illustrators standing in front of Bologna Children’s Book Fair signage.
I loved our first day at Bologna Children’s Book Fair! Wonderful company (old friends and new)… and so much to take in. I can’t wait for more, tomorrow. 📚📚📚📚📚📚📚 @crosby-fairall.bsky.social
Can you tell I’m happy to be in Bologna! 🎶 The children’s book fair starts tomorrow. ✏️✏️✏️🎉🎉🎉
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Thank you, Kim. Getting excited now! x
Bye-bye, Florence. 🛤️ Heading to Bologna today, for the Children’s Book Fair next week. 🎉
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Open sketchbook with a drawing in pen and coloured pencil by illustrator Emma Quay of a baby of Kenyan descent holding a baby bottle and wearing a woollen hat, sitting on a bench in the Piazza Di Santa Maria Novella.
You’ll have to take my word for it that there was something quite spectacular behind her, but I was more drawn to the baby. Sorry!
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Worth the wait! #sketchinginthequeue #insidetheduomo
#cattedraledisabtamariadelfiore #💙📚
Illustration from the picture book HAPPY ALL OVER by Emma Quay showing two children skipping through a shower of colourful raindrops. One child is holding her umbrella to the side to soak up the rain.
Hope you soak up a little happiness, on its International Day today! 💦
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