Regolo Ricci

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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]

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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

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  1. 1 2 3 "Regolo Ricci: Paintings and Illustrations" (homepage). Regolo Ricci (regoloricci.com). Archived 2006-08-19. Retrieved 2015-07-23.
  2. 1 2 "Governor General Lit Award nominees mirror Giller's". CBC News. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. October 25, 2000. Archived from the original on 2008-12-11. Retrieved 2008-12-11.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  3. 1 2 au: "regolo ricci" (search report). WorldCat. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
  4. "IODE Children's Book Award". Literary Awards in Canada, 1923–2000. Litawards.library.mun.ca. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
  5. au: "michael bedard" (search report). WorldCat. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
  6. 1 2 3 "The Market Wedding". Review by Leslie A. Kimmelman. Jewish Book Council. 2014. Retrieved 2015-07-23.