Graham Ross

Look! Look what I've done!! The words of an eight year old as he holds up the drawing of a vibrant red fire engine. Oh Graham, that's wonderful.

Really? Oh this is good. You draw a picture and you get a reaction. I could get into this! And so it began. The seed was planted, further watered by bedtime rituals of propping pillows up against his bedroom wall getting into bed to get lost in a family member's reading of The Wind in the Willows.

An unintended lesson learned through those readings that our intrepid illustrator still calls upon in his illustration work is that the viewer will take different things from the illustration and he will add elements to the illustration that may go over some heads, but others will catch them and smile. There's always something to look at.

A graduate of the illustration program at Sheridan College in Ontario, Graham thought he would stick around the big smoke and in addition to his work as a designer at Canadian publisher McClelland & Stewart, he would also cultivate his Flock of Seagulls hair style and work on his dance floor moves. But alas soon follicles started to recede and shoulder pads deflated, so Graham moved back to his hometown of Ottawa, Ontario to contemplate his next career move.

It was in Ottawa that Graham began his freelance illustration and graphic design career. A career that has spawned illustrations for such publishers as Orca Book Publishers, Scholastic Canada, and Meadowside Books of the United Kingdom, as well as numerous Canadian government agencies and private design firms.

He lives in Merrickville, Ontario with a circus star family: his juggling wife, a helldriver daughter, a canine cannonball, and a fire breathing cat.

Books by Graham Ross

Max Todd and the Flu Shot Frenzies

Max Todd Gets the Super Fidgets

Max Todd's Frantic Friend Countdown

Max Todd and the School Trip Squirmies

Max Todd's Camping Chaos

Max Todd's Big Game Jitters

The DATA Set Ten-Book Collection (Boxed Set)

School Trip Squirmies

Camping Chaos

The DATA Set Collection #2 (Boxed Set)

Out of Remote Control

Alphabetter Read-Along

Billy Sure Kid Entrepreneur and the Attack of the Mysterious Lunch Meat

The Billy Sure Kid Entrepreneur Collection (Boxed Set)

Billy Sure Kid Entrepreneur vs. Manny Reyes Kid Entrepreneur

Billy Sure Kid Entrepreneur and the Everything Locator

Billy Sure Kid Entrepreneur Is NOT A SINGER!

Frantic Friend Countdown

Big Game Jitters

Hyper to the Max

Flu Shot Fidgets

Billy Sure Kid Entrepreneur and the Invisible Inventor

Billy Sure Kid Entrepreneur and the Haywire Hovercraft

Billy Sure Kid Entrepreneur Is a Spy!

Billy Sure Kid Entrepreneur and the No-Trouble Bubble

Edward Built a Rocketship

Billy Sure Kid Entrepreneur and the Best Test

Billy Sure Kid Entrepreneur and the Cat-Dog Translator

Billy Sure Kid Entrepreneur and the Stink Spectacular

Billy Sure Kid Entrepreneur

Alphabetter

Timberwolf Prey

Timberwolf Rivals

Timberwolf Tracks

Monster Lunch

Rhyme Stones

Cheetah

What a Hippopota-Mess!

What a Hippopota-Mess!

By A Thread

The Paper Wagon