One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab

Randy Cecil

Illustrating picture books is all I have ever wanted to do. At age four I wrote letters, with pictures included, to my favourite illustrators. My mother tells me I also included "tips" on how they might make their books better. Surprisingly, Joel Schick and Uri Shulevitz wrote me back!
I went to Rhode Island School of Design. I was lucky to get an internship as an assistant designer for a children's publishing company before my senior year. They offered me my first book around the time I graduated, as well as a job as a freelance designer for them when they were busy, which turned out to be a lot of the time.