Kate Banks (born February 13, 1960) is an American children's writer who lives in France.

Her books, The Night Worker, won the 2001 Charlotte Zolotow Award,[1] And If the Moon Could Talk won the 1998 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for best picture book.[2] Dillon Dillon was a finalist for the 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction. Howie Bowles, Secret Agent was nominated for the 2000 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile.[3] Max’s Math won the 2016 Mathical Book Prize.[4]

Books

  • Alphabet Soup, Dragonfly Books, 1988
  • Big, Bigger, Biggest Adventure, Random House, 1991
  • The Bunnysitters, Random House, 1991
  • Peter and the Talking Shoes, Knopf, 1994
  • Baboon, Frances Foster Books, 1997
  • Spider Spider, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997
  • And If the Moon Could Talk, Frances Foster Books, 1998
  • The Bird, the Monkey, and the Snake in the Jungle, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999
  • Howie Bowles, Secret Agent, Scholastic, 1999
  • Howie Bowles and Uncle Sam, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000
  • The Night Worker, Frances Foster Books, 2000
  • A Gift from the Sea, Frances Foster Books, 2001
  • Mama’s Little Baby, DK Publishing, 2001
  • Close Your Eyes, Frances Foster Books, 2002
  • Dillon Dillon, Frances Foster Books, 2002
  • The Turtle and the Hippopotamus, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002
  • Mama’s Coming Home, Frances Foster Books, 2003
  • Walk Softly, Rachel, Frances Foster Books, 2003
  • The Cat Who Walked Across France, Frances Foster Books, 2004
  • Friends of the Heart/Amici del Cuore, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
  • The Great Blue House, Frances Foster Books, 2005
  • Max’s Words, Frances Foster Books, 2006
  • Fox, Frances Foster Books, 2007
  • Lenny’s Space, Frances Foster Books, 2007
  • Max’s Dragon, Frances Foster Books, 2008
  • Monkeys and Dog Days, Frances Foster Books, 2008
  • Monkeys and the Universe, Frances Foster Books, 2009
  • That’s Papa’s Way, Frances Foster Books, 2009
  • What’s Coming for Christmas?, Frances Foster Books, 2009
  • The Eraserheads, Frances Foster Books, 2010
  • Max’s Castle, Frances Foster Books, 2011
  • This Baby illustrated by Gabi Swiatkowska, Frances Foster Books, 2011
  • The Magician's Apprentice, Frances Foster Books, 2012
  • The Bear in the Book, Frances Foster Books, 2012
  • Thank You, Mama illustrated by Gabi Swiatkowska, Frances Foster Books, 2013
  • City Cat, illustrated by Lauren Castillo, Frances Foster Books, 2013
  • Max’s Math, illustrated by Boris Kulikov, Frances Foster Books, 2015
  • Boy's Best Friend, with Rupert Sheldrake, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015

References

  1. ↑ Charlotte Zolotow Award Books Archived 2007-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards Archived 2012-12-14 at the Wayback Machine, Winners and Honor Books 1967 to present.
  3. ↑ The Edgars Database
  4. ↑ "Max's Math". Mathical Book Prize. Retrieved 2021-06-07.


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