Richard Torrey has been an author, illustrator, and internationally syndicated cartoonist for more than 20 years. His list of clients include Highlights Magazine, KidCity (a Sesame Street publication), and Inside Sports. His syndicated comic strips, HARTLAND and PETE and CLETE, have appeared in hundreds of newspapers around the world. For the past 15 years he has developed a top-selling line of greeting cards for Recycled Paper Greetings Inc.
More recently, Richard's interests have turned toward children's books. He has written and illustrated the popular Beans Baker series for Random House and is the illustrator of over a dozen books for Simon & Schuster, Golden Books, Mcgraw-Hill, and Grolier/Scholastic and Innovative Kids.
The son of Hockey Hall of Famer, Bill Torrey, Richard lives in Shoreham, New York, with his wife and two children. His preferred medium is Peanut butter and Jelly and failing that, Watercolor/Pen and ink and acrylic.
BOOKS PUBLISHED
Title:
Why
Author:
Richard Torrey
Publisher:
HarperCollins, 2010
Title:
Almost
Author:
Richard Torrey
Publisher:
HarperCollins, 2009
Title:
Mystery at the Ballpark
Author:
Pam Kalvert
Publisher:
Innovative Kids, 2007
Title:
Clue School: The Case
of the Missing Cat
Author:
Cathy Hapka
Publisher:
Innovative Kids, 2006
Title:
Beans Baker's Best Shot
Author:
Richard Torrey
Publisher:
Random House, 2006
Title:
Lost Lunch Mystery
Author:
Cathy Hapka
Publisher:
Scholastic, 2007
Title:
A Rookie Reader: Feet, Joshua James Likes Trucks, Splat!
Author:
Mary Margaret Perez-Mercado
Publisher:
Children's Press, 2005
Title:
Beans Baker Bounces Back
Author:
Richard Torrey
Publisher:
Random House, 2003
Title:
Wild West
Author:
Megan McDonald
Publisher:
Golden Books, 2002
Title:
Beans Baker, Number Five
Author:
Richard Torrey
Publisher:
Random House, 2001
Title:
Giggle Belly
Author:
Page Sakelaris
Publisher:
Grolier, 2000
Title:
Night Train
Author:
Cathrine Lukas
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster, 2000
Title:
Train Song
Author:
Catherine Lukas
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster, 2000
Title:
Time Traveling
Author:
Catherine Lukas
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster, 2000
Title:
Rosie the Riveter
Author:
Catherine Lukas
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster, 2000
Title:
Red Caboose
Author:
June Doolittle
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster, 1999
Title:
Circus Train
Author:
June Doolittle
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster, 1999
Title:
The Train That Rode on Water
Author:
June Doolittle
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster, 1999
Title:
All Aboard the Whistle-Stop Train
Author:
June Doolittle
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster, 1999
Title:
SPLAT!
Author:
Mary Margaret Perez-Mercado
Publisher:
Children's Press, 2000
Title:
The Dark Zone
Author:
Stephen Kramer
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill, 1998
CLIENTS
Bowling Digest
Creators Syndicate
Devant Limited
Football Digest
Ganz Collectibles
Golden Books
Grolier Publishers
Hardcourt Books
Highlights Magazine
Inside Hockey
InnovativeKids
Inside Sports
Kid City Magazine
King Features Syndicate
McGraw-Hill
Omni Magazine
Penthouse Magazine
Randa Corp.
Random House
Recycled Paper Greetings
Saturday Evening Post
Scholastic Inc.
Simon & Schuster
The Hockey News
The National
