Emily Smith is an English

children's writer Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. In addition to conventional literary genres, modern children's literature is classified by the intended age of the reade ...

. Her books are aimed at young readers, mainly writing for Young Corgi Books (a

Transworld Publishers Transworld is a British publishing house in Ealing, London that is a division of Penguin Random House, one of the world's largest mass media groups. It was established in 1950 as the British division of American company Bantam Books. It publi ...

imprint) and

Orchard Books Grolier is one of the largest American publishers of general encyclopedias, including ''The Book of Knowledge'' (1910), ''The New Book of Knowledge'' (1966), ''The New Book of Popular Science'' (1972), ''Encyclopedia Americana'' (1945), ''Academ ...

. Her first children's book, ''Astrid, the au pair from Outer Space'' won the silver medal in the 6-8 age group, at the

Nestlé Smarties Book Prize The Nestlé Children's Book Prize, and Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for a time, was a set of annual awards for British children's books that ran from 1985 to 2007. It was administered by BookTrust, an independent charity that promotes books and r ...

1999. '' The Shrimp'' won the 6-8 age group

Gold medal in 2000.

Awards

* Gold award in the 6–8 age group of the 2001 Smarties Awards for ''The Shrimp''. * Silver prize in the 6–8 age group of the 1999 Smarties Awards for ''Astrid, the au pair from Outer Space''.

Publications

* ''The Good Manners Prize'' (HarperCollins Educational, 1996) Stories contributed to original anthologies: * "The Friendship Necklace", ''Incredibly Creepy Stories'', ed.

Tony Bradman Tony Bradman (born 22 January 1954) is an English writer of children's books and short speculative fiction best known for the ''Dilly the Dinosaur'' book series. He is the author of more than 50 books for young people published by multiple houses ...

(Corgi, Oct 1997), pp. 45–62 * "Across Three Millennia", ''Sensational Cyber Stories'', ed. Tony Bradman ( Doubleday UK, Nov 1997), pp. 81–96"Publication Listing" (Sensational Cyber Stories, November 1997)
. ISFDB. Retrieved 19 October 2014. Published by Young Corgi Books, a

imprint, for children ages about 6 to 10 years: *''Astrid, the au pair from Outer Space'' (1999) *'' The Shrimp'' (2001) *''Annie and the Aliens'' (2002); hardcover published by

Andersen Press Andersen Press is a British book publishing company. It was founded in 1976 by Klaus Flugge, and was named after Hans Christian Andersen "because it is easier to pronounce and spell than Flugge". Random House has a holding in the company and a ...

, 2001 *''Robomum'' (2003) *''Patrick the Party-Hater'' (2004) *''Joe v. The Fairies'' (2005) Published by

, for children ages about 9 years and up: *''What Howls at the Moon in Frilly Knickers?'' (2001) *''When Mum Threw Out the Telly'' (2003) *''A Stain on the Stone'' (2006)

References

External links

Emily Smith's official children's author website

Emily Smith at Random House
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