Bill Slavin

Multiple award-winning illustrator Bill Slavin was born in Belleville, Ontario. His illustration work includes the Stanley series of books (Stanley’s Party, Stanley at Sea, etc.) with Linda Bailey as well as a number of other beloved children’s books including Robert Heidbreder’s Drumheller Dinosaur Dance (co-illustrated with Esperança Melo) and his own picture book, Who Broke the Teapot?! Bill lives in Millbrook, Ontario with his wife, Esperanca Melo. Recently he has returned to his childhood love of comics and graphic novels, writing and illustrating the trilogy for kids, Elephants Never Forget, as well as the Mordecai Crow trilogy. Secrets of Jarrow is his first book with Renegade Arts Entertainment. Bill is currently illustrating the third book in the Mordecai Crow trilogy.