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• AUTHOR'S BOOKS:
  2009: Leaf Trouble PB
  2009: Leaf Trouble HB
  
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Jonathan Emmett, Author

Jonathan Emmett, author of a whole host of picture books including Leaf Trouble for The Chicken House, was born in Leicestershire in 1965. It was while he was at college studying architecture that he first developed his skills as a writer and illustrator.

After leaving college he worked as an architect for several years, before pursuing a full-time career in children’s books. In addition to writing picture books such as Bringing Down the Moon, Someone Bigger, Pigs Might Fly and Ruby Flew Too, Jonathan also writes and paper-engineers pop-up books. 

Jonathan's books have won several awards including the Red House Children’s Book Award 'Book for Younger Children' for Pigs Might Fly and the Kiekeboekprijs for Bringing Down the Moon.

He lives in Nottingham with his wife and two children.