Caroline Merola Explained

Caroline Merola
Birth Place:	Montreal, Quebec
Genre:	comic book, children's book

Caroline Merola (born 1962) is a Canadian illustrator and author living in Quebec.

Life

Merola was born in Montreal, Quebec and received a college-level diploma in plastic arts from the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf and a bachelor's degree in fine art from Concordia University.

Her children's books have been translated into English, Czech and Arabic.^[1]

She was host for the Télé-Métropole program Plexi-Mag and she contributed to the magazine Titanic.^[2]

In 1990, Merola received the for Ma Meteor bleue. In 1999, her Le rêve du collectionneur received the Prix Coup de Coeur at the .^[3]

Selected works

• Cent Dangers, comic book (1986)
• La maison truquée, comic book (1994)
• Le Rêve du collectionneur, comic book (1994)
• Le roi des loups, children's book (1998)
• N'aie pas peur, Nic, children's book (2001), finalist for a Mr. Christie's Book Award
• L'Amateur, comic book (2003)
• La vache qui lit, children's book (2004)
• Une nuit en ville, children's book (2007)
• Lili et les poilus, children's book (2011), received a Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration^{[4] [2] [3]}
• La périlleuse aventure de la petite bestiole (2019)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Caroline Merola . Les Éditions de la Bagnole . fr.
2. Web site: Caroline Merola . Les Éditions du Boréal . fr.
3. Web site: Caroline Merola . Communication-Jeunesse . fr . 2017-04-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080204091714/http://www.communication-jeunesse.qc.ca/repertoires/createurs/fiches.php?id=53-56-3834 . 2008-02-04 . dead .
4. Web site: Caroline Merola . Salon du livre de l'Outaouais . fr . 2017-04-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170409021229/http://slo.qc.ca/caroline-merola/ . 2017-04-09 . dead .