Bill Richardson writes for children and adults. His books include Bachelor Brothers’ Bed & Breakfast, Waiting for Gertrude, After Hamelin, The Alphabet Thief, and Last Week. Awards include Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, The Silver Birch Award, a B.C. Book Award, a Manitoba Book Award, and Outstanding Bandsman (Golden Gate Junior High School, 1969).
Hare B&B, his first Running the Goat publication, was shortlisted for the Elizabeth Mzarik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award and the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award; co-winner in two categories of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards; and included in the Globe and Mail's top books of 2021. Lola Flies Alone was both a winner and a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. My Bunny Lies Over the Ocean will be published in May 2023. All three of his Running the Goat publications have delightful artwork by Bill Pechet.
