Scot Ritchie is an award winning illustrator/author from Vancouver, Canada. He is also a proud Kiwi (New Zealand citizen)! Many of Scot's 65+ books have been translated into French, Korean, Indonesian, Polish, Finnish, Arabic and Dutch. Scot has been published by Canada's top publishers including Groundwood, Kids Can Press, Pajama Press, Owl Kids, Annick Press, Scholastic and Harbour Publishing. He has also worked with the National Film Board of Canada and exhibited in the National Gallery of Canada. In 2020 Scot's book Follow That Bee! was given the Children's Science Picture Book Award, AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize as a Finalist In 2019 Follow That Bee was also a Best Books for Kids & Teens, Starred Selection, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Winner. In 2010 'Follow that Map!', a book Scot wrote and illustrated, was nominated for the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non Fiction. His book "Let's Go!' (written by Lizann Flatt) was chosen as the 2009 give-away Book of the Year by the Canadian Children's Book Centre. This honour involves a special print run of half a million books - one given to every grade one student in Canada. In 2008 Scot was chosen as artist of the year by British Columbia Library Association for their Summer Reading Club.
