Kate Banks

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]

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

External links

• Kate Banks at Library of Congress Authorities, with 39 catalog records