Renne Benoit is the award-winning illustrator of more than 15 books for children. She has won the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award for Children s Literature for Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion; the OLA Silver Birch Express Award for The Secret of the Village Fool; and the Christie Harris Illustrated Children s Literature Prize for Fraser Bear and Goodbye to Griffith Street. Big City Bees was nominated for the Governor General s Award. Renne lives in St. Thomas, Ontario.