Kathryn Cave (born 1948 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England) is an award-winning British children's book author. She was awarded the very first international UNESCO prize for Children's and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance for Something Else. The book was later made into a TV comic series by TV Loonland. A theatre company, Tall Stories, has adapted Something Else as a children's production, and they ran a UK tour in Autumn 2009.
She has three children, Eleanor, Joseph, and Alice, and six grandchildren. Kathryn has previously worked as an editor for Penguin and Basil Blackwell, and she currently works under contract for Frances Lincoln, an independent publishing house in North London.
She lives in Hampstead, North London.
Dragonrise (1984)
Just My Luck (1987)
Poor Little Mary (1989)
Henry Hobbs, Alien (1990)
Running Battles (1992)
Andrew Takes the Plunge (1994)
Best Friends for Ever (1994)
Jumble (1995)
The Emperor's Gruckle Hound (1996)
William and the Wolves (1999)
Septimus Similon, Practising Wizard (2000)
Henry Hobbs, Space Voyager (2001)
Henry Hobbs and the Lost Planet (2002)
Out for the Count (1991) illustrated by Chris Riddell
Something Else (1994) illustrated by Chris Riddell
Horatio Happened (1998) illustrated by Chris Riddell
W is for World (1998) illustrated by Oxfam
Henry's Song (2000) illustrated by Sue Hendra
The Boy Who Became an Eagle (2000) illustrated by Nick Maland
The Brave Little Grork (2002) illustrated by Nick Maland
One Child, One Seed (2002) illustrated by Oxfam
You've Got Dragons (2003) illustrated by Nick Maland
That's What Friends Do (2004) illustrated by Nick Maland
Friends (2005) illustrated by Nick Maland
1997 Die Kinder- und Jugendbuchliste (RB/SR) in Germany for Something Else
1997 UNESCO prize for Children's and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance for Something Else