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