Regolo Ricci

Regolo Ricci (born 1955) is a Canadian artist working mainly in oils and watercolors. He was born in Italy and came to Canada as a young child.^[1] He is best known for his work as a children's book illustrator, and he was nominated for the Canada Council for the Arts Governor General's Award for Children's Book Illustration in 2000.^[2] As of 2006 he lived in Mississauga, Ontario.^[1]

Ricci and the writer Michael Bedard created picture book editions of literary fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, namely "The Nightingale" and "The Tinder Box" (1835 and 1843, Danish language).^[3] They won the annual IODE Ontario Children's Book Award (now Jean Thorp Award) for The Nightingale in 1991.^[4]

Ricci's earliest book listed in the WorldCat catalogue is The Lightning Bolt, another picture book written by Bedard, which was published by Oxford University Press in 1989.^[3][5]

The Market Wedding (2000), written by Cary Fagan, is "based on an old Yiddish tale".^[6] It was a runner-up for the Sydney Taylor Book Award^[6] and Ricci was one of five nominees for the Governor General's Award in children's literature illustration that year.^[1][2]

Selected works

• The Lightning Bolt (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1989), picture book written by Michael Bedard, OCLC 19390065
• The Tinder Box (OUP, 1990), adapted by Bedard from Hans Christian Andersen, OCLC 738689715
• The Nightingale (OUP, 1991), by Bedard from Andersen, OCLC 850321131
• The Market Wedding (Tundra Books, 2000), by Cary Fagan; 2014 Groundwood Books edition, ISBN 978-1554986958^[6]