Michael Emberley

Michael Emberley is an American children’s book author and illustrator. He won the American Library Association Theodore Seuss Geisel medal for the best American children’s book for early readers 2023 Geisel medal for the best American children’s book for early readers. https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2023/01/michael-emberley-wins-2023-geisel-award-i-did-it.
A book he illustrated, Our Big Day, Won the 2022 Irish Book Awards for young children in a collaboration with Dublin author, Bob Johnston, 
.https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2022/11/23/an-post-irish-book-awards-2022-this-years-winners-revealed/.
Emberley was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is living in Ireland since 2007. Michael Emberley is the son of children’s book illustrator Ed Emberley. 
Emberley has been creating children’s books for over 40 years. His first book contract as a teenager, for Dinosaurs, a drawing book, in 1979. His first book both written and illustrated was in 1990, Ruby. Besides his own writing, Emberley has also collaborated with multiple authors on multiple book series. 
In 2021, Emberley wrote and illustrated the book for young people in how text messaging actually works – The message, the Extraordinary Journey of an Ordinary Text Message. 
.https://www.hbook.com/story/review-of-the-message-the-extraordinary-journey-of-an-ordinary-text-message.
.https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/michael-emberley/the-message-emberley/.
==publications== 
As author and illustrator
* Dinosaurs , a drawing book (Little, Brown &Co 1980)
* More Dinosaurs, a drawing book (Little, Brown & Co. 1983) 
* The Sports Equipment Book (Little, Brown & Co. 1982) 
* Ruby (Little, Brown & Co. 1990) 
* The Present (Little, Brown & Co. 1991) 
* Welcome Back, Sun (Little, Brown & Co. 1993) 
* Ruby and the Sniffs (Little, Brown & Co., 2004) 
* The Message, The Extraordinary Journey of an Ordinary Text Message (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 2021), 
* I did it (Holiday House, Oct 2022), 
* Lets Go! (Holiday House, 2023), 
As illustrator/designer
With Author Robert Lewis May:
* Rudolph’s Second Christmas (Applewood Books 1992) 
* Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer (Applewood Books 1994) 
With author Robie Harris:
* It’s Perfectly Normal (Candlewick Press 1994/2021) 
* Let’s Talk About Sex (Walker Books UK 1994/2021) 
* It’s So Amazing! (Candlewick Press 1999/2024) 
* Let’s Talk About Where Babies Come From (Walker Books UK 1999/2024) 
* It’s Not The Stork!(Candlewick Press 2006) 
* Let’s Talk About Birth, Babies And Families (Walker Books UK 2006)
* Happy Birthday! (Candlewick Press /Walker Books UK 1996) 
* Hello Benny! (Margaret K. McElderry 2002) 
* Go Go Maria (Margart K. McElderry 2003) 
* Sweet Jasmine and Jackson (Margaret K. McElderry 2004) 
* Maybe A Bear Ate It! (Orchard Books, 2008) 
With Author Mary Ann Hoberman:
* You Read to Me, I'll Read to You, Very Short Stories to Read Together (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2006) 
* You Read to Me, I'll Read to You, Very Short Fables to Read Together (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2010) 
* You Read to Me, I'll Read to You, Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2012) 
* You Read to Me, I'll Read to You, Very Short Scary Stories to Read Together(Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2007) 
* You Read to Me, I'll Read to You, Very Short Tall Tales to Read Together(Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, reprint 2019) 
* You Read to Me, I'll Read to You, Very Short Mother Goose Tales to Read Together(Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2012) 
* Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart(Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2012) 
With Author Barbara Bottner:
* Miss Brooks Loves Books(And I Don't) (Knopf Books for Young Readers 2010) 
* Miss Brooks' Story Nook( Where Tales Are Told and Ogres Are Welcome)(Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2014) 
* Annoying ABC (Knopf Books for Young Readers 2011) {{ISBN|978-0-375-86708-8
* Priscilla Gorilla (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books 2017) 
With Author Sally Lloyd-Jones:
* The Ultimate Guide to Grandmas & Grandpas (HarperCollins, 2008) 
With Author Nancy Raines Day:
* Baby’s Firsts (Charlesbridge, 2018) 
With Author Marie Louise Fitzpatrick :
* I Can Make a Train Noise (Neal Porter Books 2021) 
With Author Bob Johnston:
* Our Big Day (The O'Brien Press, 2022) 
Category:American children's writers
Category:Illustrators