Emily Arnold McCully

Emily Arnold McCully is an American illustrator and children’s fiction author best known for “Mirette on the High Wire” a US picture book illustration she wrote in 1993. McCully is a native of Galesburg, Illinois, though she spent much of her childhood in the New York suburb of Garden City. She comes from a creative family as her father wrote for radio shows and her mother was a singer and actress.

The best place to start is the Grandma series, the earliest of Emily Arnold McCully's multi-book series: it opens with The Grandma Mix-Up (1988) and runs to 4 books across 1988–1997, ending with The Mixed-Up Grandmas Treasury (1997). Emily Arnold McCully's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Emily Arnold McCully has 89 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1970 and 2023. 7 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Grandma series with 4 books — and 82 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Emily Arnold McCully's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Grandma (1988–1997, 4 books) and Mirette (1992–2000, 3 books).

This guide splits Emily Arnold McCully's 89 books into 2 named series and 82 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Grandma (4 books, 1988–1997); Mirette (3 books, 1992–2000).