Emma Chichester Clark

This British surname is double-barrelled, being made up of multiple names. It should be written as Chichester Clark, not Clark.

Emma Chichester Clark
Born	(1955-10-15) 15 October 1955 (age 70)
Occupation	Illustrator author
Nationality	British
Education	Chelsea School of Art Royal College of Art
Genre	Children's literature
Notable awards	Mother Goose Award (1988)
Parents	Robin Chichester-Clark Jane Helen Goddard
Website
emmachichesterclark.co.uk

Emma Chichester Clark (born 15 October 1955) ^[1] is a British children's book illustrator and author. She has published over 60 books and is best known for her series of picture books about a child's toy called Blue Kangaroo. ^[2]

Life

Daughter of Robin Chichester-Clark and Jane Helen Goddard, Chichester Clark studied graphic design at Chelsea Art School in the 1970s. ^[3] After two years working in a design studio, she studied illustration under Quentin Blake at the Royal College of Art. Her book Listen to this won the 1988 Mother Goose Award for best newcomer. ^[2]

Works

Written and illustrated

• “Catch That Hat”, 1988
• Listen to this, 1987.
• Piper, 1995.
• Little Miss Muffet counts to ten, 1997.
• I love you, Blue Kangaroo!, 1998.
• It was you, Blue Kangaroo!, 2001
• Where are you, Blue Kangaroo!, 2002
• What shall we do, Blue Kangaroo?, 2002
• No more kissing!, 2002.
• Up in heaven, 2004.
• Will and Squill, 2005.
• Goldilocks and the three bears, 2010.

Illustrated

• Boo! stories to make you jump by Laura Cecil. 1990.
• The minstrel and the dragon pup by Rosemary Sutcliff. 1993.
• Greek myths by Geraldine McCaughrean. 1993.
• Greek gods and goddesses by Geraldine McCaughrean. 1993.
• Too tired by Ann Turnbull. 1993.
• The frog princess by Laura Cecil. 1995.
• Something rich and strange : a treasury of Shakespeare's verse. 1005.
• Roman myths by Geraldine McCaughrean. 1998.
• Puss in Boots and other cat tales by Montena Mondadori. 2001.
• Not last night but the night before by Colin McNaughton. 2009.
• The Orchard Book of Grimm's Fairy Tales by Saviour Pirotta. 2011
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin 2011
• Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of the Wizard of Oz 2017
• Time and the clockmice etcetera by Peter Dickinson

References

1. "Emma Chichester Clark". Who's who 2014. Oxford University Press. 2014. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
2. Joanna Carey, Croc on ice (with curlicues), The Guardian , 17 December 2005.
3. Ryder, Chris (18 August 2016). "Sir Robin Chichester-Clark obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 June 2021.

External links

• Children's literature portal

• Official website
• Plumdog blog
• Emma Chichester Clark at British Council : Literature
• Emma Chichester Clark: A life in pictures, The Guardian, 6 May 2011
• Emma Chichester Clark at Answers.com
• Interview by the Federation of Children's Book Groups Archived 16 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine (March 2013)
• Emma Chichester Clark at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Emma Chichester Clark at Library of Congress , with 74library catalogue records