Emily Rand

Emily Rand is an illustrator living in London, UK.

Emily studied illustration at Camberwell College of Arts and the London College of Communication. After graduating Emily worked with children and young people teaching art in Primary schools and running creative workshops in galleries and museums.

Inspired by the beautiful and unusual books in the children’s bookshop Chantelivre in Paris, Emily was inspired to start creating picture books in her free time.

In 2012 she entered her illustrations to the illustrator’s exhibition at Bologna Children’s Book Fair, her work was selected for the prestigious Bologna Illustrator’s Award. The selected illustrations became her first picture book, A Dog Day, which was published in 2014 by Tate Publishing.

Since then she has written and illustrated many more books published by Tate Publishing, Thames & Hudson, Flying Eye, Macmillan and Laurence King. Her books have been translated into many languages and sold all over the world (including in the Chantelivre bookshop in Paris!).

Emily’s die cut artist books, In the City and In the Garden, published with Hato Press were included in the 2017 IBBY silent books collection in Lampedusa, Italy. The Lampedusa Library was created for both local and immigrant children launched in response to the waves of refugees from Africa and the Middle East arriving on the island.

In 2019 Emily was selected by the Children’s Laureate, Lauren Child, to be featured in Drawing Words, an exhibition of contemporary UK children’s book illustration.

Emily’s book The House Full of Stuff was selected for the Prix des Incorruptibles 2021-2022, voted by children from accross France.

Emily lives in east London and continues to make books from a studio nearby on the edge of the Walthamstow marshes.