Scot Ritchie is a Canadian

Canada

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 author and illustrator. He specializes in children's literature and has published in advertising, editorial, map, and educational material. His work can be found in publications including Wall St. Journal, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, New York Magazine, and Readers Digest. His 40+ children's books have been translated into Korean, Dutch, French and Polish.

Awards

• Winner: BC Kids Summer Reading Club Illustrator of the Year, 2009
• Canadian Children's Book Centre Giveaway Book of the Year, 2009 (for Let's Go! The Story of Getting from There to Here)
• Shortlisted: Cybil Award Nonfiction Picture Books, 2007 (for Let's Go!)
• Nominated: Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award
  Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award
  The Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award was created in 1971 to honour an outstanding work of illustration in current children's literature of Canada. The award is presented annually under the auspices of the Canadian Library Association...
  
  , 2007 (for Let's Go!)
• Winner: Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada, 1984 (for Dinner at Auntie Rose’s)
• Finalist: Canadian Toy Testing Council "Great Books for Children," 2001 (for Why? The best ever question and answer book about science, nature and the world around you)
• Winner: "Parents' Guide to Children's Media Award," 2000 (for My Baby Brother and Me and My Baby Sister and Me)

Children's non-fiction, author & illustrator

• Follow That Map! A First Book of Mapping Skills (Kids Can Press, 2009)
• Everything Kids' Spies Puzzle & Activity Book (Adams Media, 2008)
• Everything Kids' Dragons Puzzle and Activity Book (Adams Media, 2008)
• Everything Kids' Connect-the-Dots and Puzzle Book (Adams Media, 2008)
• Crazy Mazey Houses (Little Hare Books, 2008)
• Up, Up, and Away: A Round-the-World Puzzle Adventure (Maple Tree Press, 2006)

Children's non-fiction, illustrator

• Let's Go: The Story of Getting from Here to There, by L. Flatt (Maple Tree Press, 2007)
• aRHYTHMetic: A book and a half of poetry about math, by K. Winters
  Kari-Lynn Winters
  Kari Winters, née Moore is a Canadian children's author and literacy researcher. She taught children's literature and drama at the University of British Columbia from 2004-2009. In January 2010 Winters assumed the post of Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Brock University .-...
  
  , T. Stone, and L. Sherritt-Fleming (Gumboot Books, 2009)
• Why?: The Best Ever Question and Answer Book About Nature, Science, and the World Around You, by C. Ripley (Maple Tree Press, 2004)
• My Class and Me: Kindergarten Memory Scrapbook, by M. Leatherdale (Kids Can Press, 2003)
• My Grandmother and Me Memory Scrapbook, by J. Drake, A. Love (Kids Can Press, 1999)
• Hockey (Basics for Beginners), by L. Wark (Kids Can Press, 1994)
• The Bears We Know, by Brenda Silsbe
  Brenda Silsbe
  -Background:Brenda Silsbe was born October 10, 1953 in Terrace, British Columbia, Canada. In 1977 she received a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of British Columbia and returned to Terrace to teach primary school...
  
   (Annikins, 1989)
• My Father and Me Memory Scrapbook, by J. Drake, A. Love (Kids Can Press, 2000)

Anthology contributions, illustrator

• "Rhyme or Reason" by K. Winters
  Kari-Lynn Winters
  Kari Winters, née Moore is a Canadian children's author and literacy researcher. She taught children's literature and drama at the University of British Columbia from 2004-2009. In January 2010 Winters assumed the post of Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Brock University .-...
  
  , in World of Stories (Gumboot Books, 2008)

Children's fiction, illustrator

• "The Mightiest of All," by K. Winters
  Kari-Lynn Winters
  Kari Winters, née Moore is a Canadian children's author and literacy researcher. She taught children's literature and drama at the University of British Columbia from 2004-2009. In January 2010 Winters assumed the post of Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Brock University .-...
  
  , in Know Magazine (January, 2008)