Mélanie Watt

Mélanie Watt is a Canadian children's author and illustrator, born in Montreal, Quebec. Watt is best known for Scaredy Squirrel, which won the Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award, and for the Chester series, in which a cat competes with the author for the chance to write and illustrate his own books. Chester, the first book in that series, earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly. Watt's books have been translated into 23 languages and have sold over two million copies, as of 2012.