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]