Kate Banks
Kate Banks is an American children's writer who lives in France.
Her books, The Night Worker, won the 2001 Charlotte Zolotow Award, And If the Moon Could Talk won the 1998 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for best picture book. 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.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
