Meet the author

Emma Hunsinger.

Writer · United States

Emma Hunsinger: American New Yorker cartoonist turned picture-book author whose NPR Best Book My Parents Won't Stop Talking! nails the agony of childhood impatience for ages 3 to 7.

Emma Hunsinger is an American cartoonist and picture-book author who cut her teeth on New Yorker cartoons before turning to children's books. Her picture book My Parents Won't Stop Talking!, illustrated by Tillie Walden and named an NPR Best Book of the Year, captures the exquisite agony of childhood impatience as young Molly waits for four grown-ups to just stop chatting. Wildly expressive and laugh-out-loud funny, it channels the very particular torture of being ready to leave while the adults settle in. Hunsinger's comics sensibility, honed in short-form work and her acclaimed graphic novels, brings a loose, elastic energy to the page that makes her a natural read-aloud for ages 3 to 7.