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]

References
  1. "Regolo Ricci: Paintings and Illustrations" (homepage). Regolo Ricci (regoloricci.com). Archived 2006-08-19. Retrieved 2015-07-23.
  2. "Governor General Lit Award nominees mirror Giller's". CBC News. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. October 25, 2000. Archived from the original on 2012-11-13. Retrieved 2008-12-11.
  3. 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. "The Market Wedding". Review by Leslie A. Kimmelman. Jewish Book Council. 2014. Retrieved 2015-07-23.


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