Mélanie Watt (born August 20, 1975 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian children's author and illustrator.
[1][2] She is best known for Scaredy Squirrel, which won the Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award and was published in French as Frisson l'écureuil.
[5] As a child, Mélanie Watt enjoyed drawing the comic strip character Garfield.
[6] She received a BA in graphic design from the Université du Québec à Montréal.
[8] In 1999, while enrolled in an illustration class taught by Michele Lemieux, Watt wrote her first story, Leon the Chameleon.