Thank you, Nicola Picture Book Book Club, for inviting me to celebrate picture books and the happiness they bring. 🌈 And thank you, party people, for coming — I’ve loved seeing what you brought to share! 🎈And I’m happy to have many new delights to check out… 📚#picbookbc

Ha ha! I wonder if every single monkey is still saying BOO! #spikemilligan #picbookbc

A happy afternoon — can you tell!

Inspired by a little reader, Tommy, all proceeds from the sale of this art print with illustration by Emma Quay and poem by Shauna MacKenzie will go to the Children’s Tumour Foundation Australia, to help shine a light on NF. letters-to-my-sunflower.square.site/shop/littlesun…

Colouring in... cutting out... filling up — activity sheets to download for ‘Happy All Over’! 🖍️✂️🌈💦✏️ emmaquay.com/teachers HarperCollins Kids

Skipping out of the HarperCollins Kids 'animation studios' today! #HappyAllOverBook emmaquay.com/books#/happy-a…

I loved answering Joy Lawn’s intelligent questions in this interview for Magpies literary magazine. magpies.net.au/magpies-magazi…

I spent days making colourful drips for ‘Happy All Over’. ✂️🌈💦 By popular demand, here’s another time-lapse process video of me wetting tissue paper shapes — the opposite of watching paint dry? I hope so! #HappyAllOverbook #emmaquay HarperCollins Kids

Happy… on the inside! Thank you for the lovely pics, HarperCollins Kids #kidlitart

If you are looking for kids books that spark joy, then try one of these. All are fun, heartwarming, and beautifully crafted 💛✨#picturebooks #childrensbooks Liz Ledden Emma Quay HarperCollins Kids Hardie Grant Children's Publishing Penguin Books Aus

Trying to choose which illustration from HAPPY ALL OVER might make good limited edition prints. 🤍 Any (any!) feedback welcome. 🙏🏻 #HappyAllOverbook HarperCollins Kids

The tyranny of choice. Spoiler alert: she chose rainbow! 🩷🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 #picturebookillustration

Stories shared… and painting, too. 📚🎨 Thank you to all the children who listened and created along with me this morning, at the State Library of NSW Online Storytime. 🙏🏻

Creating a palette from a few cups of colour, at emmaquay.com/blog/harmoniou… #kidlitart #colourpalette #illustration

HAPPY ALL OVER limited edition prints… dropping soon! 🌈 I’m so happy with how the colours have come out. #happyalloverbook #illustrationart

A new limited edition print — the first from HAPPY ALL OVER… 💦🌈 emmaquay.com/prints-shop/ha…

It’s back in BIG! ☀️ After lots of messages from parents whose children love the chunky little ‘My Sunbeam Baby’ board book, asking if the original linen-textured hardback with the debossed title is available, so they can keep it as a special keepsake. ➰ YES! 💛 HarperCollins Kids

Talking HAPPY ALL OVER and all sorts of things I never thought I’d say out loud — ha ha — with the best interviewer ever, Joy Lawn in Magpies — thank you, Joy. HarperCollins Kids

"Swing". One little girl and her origami bird. 🤍 I'm not sure he'd last long in that bird bath! 💦 The 4th limited edition print in my new series from HAPPY ALL OVER — emmaquay.com/prints-shop/... — I hope you like them! #kidlitart #illustration

KIDS AT THE LIBRARY WORKSHOP State Library of NSW 📚🖍️✂️ Stories to make you smile these holidays, with award-winning author and illustrator Emma Quay! HAPPY ALL OVER craft activity & story time. ▪️9 October, 10:00 – 11:00 am ▪️Suitable for children age 3-6 sl.nsw.gov.au/events/emma-qu…