Emma Mactaggart is an award winning author, speaker and publisher.
She has been teaching the craft of writing and illustrating to children and adults for the last eleven years via her Child Writes program. Her publishing business, a small press with a big purpose, Boogie Books, is the largest publisher in the world on Amazon of children’s picture books written by children for children.
These same books also FLY with Jetstar as part of their in-flight entertainment system. Emma is a regular guest on ABC Southern Queensland Radio with host Belinda Sanders talking about books, and if she isn’t consuming them herself, she is creating them. ‘Imagine’ won two international awards – an IPPY gold medal and a gold Moonbeam Award, both for the eBook version. Her latest project is as publisher of author Jo-Ann Capp’s novella ‘Four Hot Chips’ and she has written a children’s picture book for adults with illustrator Mary-Kate Khoo, ‘Where is the True Ewe'.
It takes a village to raise a child and it takes a child to inspire a village
- Emma Mactaggart
Emma wrote and originally published ‘Lily Fabourama Glamourama’ in 2004 and it has been reimagined and gets a second lease of life with Ester De Boer as illustrator and it has just won an IPPY silver medal. Emma coordinated the success picture book project for the Melanoma Awareness Foundation, ‘Melanie & Me’. She also the Founder of International Read to Me! Day, focused on the importance of reading regularly to children.