Mélanie Watt

Mélanie Watt (born August 20, 1975 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian children's author and illustrator. She is best known for ''Scaredy Squirrel'', which won the Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award and was published in French as ''Frisson l'écureuil.'' Melanie Watt's other major picture book series is ''Chester'', which is about a cat named Chester who competes with Watt for the chance to write and illustrate his books. ''Chester'' (2009), the first book in the series, received a starred review from ''Publishers Weekly''.

As of 2012, she has sold over two million books that have been translated into 23 languages. Provided by Wikipedia