Hope Hamilton, Sam Hamilton: Meet Emma Walton Hamilton’s Children, Tony Walton’s Grandchildren

Emma Katherine Walton Hamilton is an English-American children’s book author, theatrical director, and actress.

Emma Hamilton is also an instructor in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton, where she serves as Director of the Southampton Children’s Literature Fellows program and the Young Artists and Writers Project.

Emma Hamilton’s parents are British actress and singer Julie Andrews and Tony Walton, a British set and costume designer.

From 1983 to 1991, Emma Hamilton had a few bit parts in films and television, including Micki + Maude and That’s Life! and in 2000, she began writing books for children in collaboration with her mother, starting with Dumpy the Dumptruck.

Emma Hamilton and her mum wrote 13 “Dumpy” books, of which 12 were illustrated by her father Tony Walton, who had remained friends with her mother despite their divorce.

Walton-Hamilton and Andrews have co-written 31 children’s books, including the “Dumpy” books, The Great American Mousical (2006), also illustrated by Walton, two “Bonnie Boadicea” novels for middle schoolers, The Very Fairy Princess (2010) series, and two unrelated novels. They have also co-edited two anthologies of poetry and songs, and one concept book, Thanks to You: Wisdom From Mother and Child.

In 1991, Emma Walton married actor/director Stephen Hamilton and they have two children; Hope and Sam Hamilton.

Sam Hamilton was born in 1996, and Hope Hamilton was born in 2003.