Lynne Rickards

Lynne Rickards was born in Canada but returned to her roots in Scotland in 1992. She has been a writer of sorts all her life, working as a translator in Toronto, a proofreader in Montreal and an editor in Glasgow. Her early career included a brief stint as a children's illustrator for Crabtree Publishing Company, and this has proved invaluable in her picture book writing. She can visualise a story beautifully, and then let someone else do the hard work of illustrating! Lynne began writing for children when her own kids were learning to read. Several of her books feature penguins in starring roles because her son loves penguins. For her daughter, whose favourite author is Jacqueline Wilson, Lynne writes in the first person as a shy and troubled ten-year-old.