Kate Banks

Kate Banks has written many books for children, among them Max’s Words, And If the Moon Could Talk, winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and The Night Worker, winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Award. She grew up in Maine, where she and her two sisters and brother spent a lot of time outdoors, and where Banks developed an early love of reading. “I especially liked picture books,” she says, “and the way in which words and illustrations could create a whole new world in which sometimes real and other times magical and unexpected things could happen.” Banks attended Wellesley College and received her masters in history at Columbia University. She lived in Rome for eight years but now lives in the South of France with her husband and two sons, Peter Anton and Maximilian.

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Max's Castle
Max's Castle

Kate Banks, illustrationed by Boris Kulikov
Frances Foster Books

When Max finds a pile of forgotten toys under the bed, his brothers Benjamin and Karl wonder what’s so special about some old blocks. So Max shows them. With...


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This Baby
This Baby

Kate Banks, illustrated by Gabi Swiatkowska
Frances Foster Books

Kate Banks’s lyrical poetry pairs with Gabi Swiatkowska’s playful dreamlike images to create this must-have book for all children who are about to be new...


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The Eraserheads
The Eraserheads

Kate Banks; pictures by Boris Kulikov
Frances Foster Books

4 + 3 = 8? Whoops! That’s not right. Looks like a job for the eraserheads! The three eraserheads—an owl, a crocodile, and a pig—live atop three pencils in...


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What's Coming for Christmas?
What's Coming for Christmas?

Kate Banks; Pictures by Georg Hallensleben
Frances Foster Books

You can see it in the way the snowman’s eyes sparkle. Hear it in the voices of carolers echoing in the streets, and in the sounds of children trimming the...


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That's Papa's Way
That's Papa's Way

Kate Banks; Pictures by Lauren Castillo
Frances Foster Books

A father and his little girl set out early one morning to go fishing. The girl watches her father closely, noticing how he plucks the worms from the soil with...


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Monkeys and the Universe
Monkeys and the Universe
Monkey Readers
Kate Banks; Pictures by Tomek Bogacki
Frances Foster Books

Max’s older brother, Pete, is building a model of the solar system, and he won’t let Max help. It’s enough to make a little monkey feel like nothing more than...


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Monkeys and Dog Days
Monkeys and Dog Days
Monkey Readers
Kate Banks; Pictures by Tomek Bogacki
Frances Foster Books

Max and his older brother, Pete, are getting a dog. A dog needs to be played with. That’s the fun part. But a dog also needs to be fed, bathed, and walked. Max...


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Max's Dragon
Max's Dragon

Kate Banks; Pictures by Boris Kulikov
Frances Foster Books

Max is looking for words that rhyme. His dragon is in his wagon – or was, for now its tail has left a trail, which Max follows. He finds an umbrella on the...


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Lenny's Space
Lenny's Space

Kate Banks
Frances Foster Books

Nine-year-old Lenny Brewster is captivated by the world – the mysteries of machines, the magic of snow, the pure joy of a perfect ride down a slippery slide....


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