'Happy All Over' - School Holiday Workshop with Author and Illustrator Emma Quay (BL)
During this workshop, Emma will share her book 'Happy All Over' and her illustration methods with the children and together they will make a craft. For primary age children 4-10.
Date: Wednesday 9th of July
Time: 10:30am-11:30am
Venue: Burnside Public Library, 401 Greenhill Road, Tusmore, 5065
Emma has illustrated a wide range of award-winning picture books for young children, including the bestselling ABIA Award winning and CBCA short-listed Rudie Nudie — voted into Australia’s Top 50 Favourite Books in 2016. Emma has been short listed four times for the CBCA Book of the Year Awards, with Bear and Chook by the Sea (written by Lisa Shanahan) winning the Early Childhood section in 2010. Her books have been short listed in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the Western Australian Premier's Book of the Year Awards, the Children's Peace Literature Awards, the Western Australian Young Readers' Book Awards, the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards, the BILBY Awards, and her picture book with writer Meredith Hooper, Emily and Alfie, won a Royal Zoological Society of NSW Whitley Award. Emma painted three hundred babies in her title for the very young, My Sunbeam Baby… then just two familiar children in Rudie Nudie Christmas. Her most recent book, Happy All Over, was released last year. During the month of July, Emma will be in Adelaide on a May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust Creative Time Residential Fellowship.
