Katherine Roy

Katherine Roy is an award-winning, best-selling author and illustrator of children's books focused on natural history and science. Her notable works include Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California’s Farallon Islands, which earned a Robert F. Sibert Honor, How to Be an Elephant: Growing Up in the African Wild, and Making More: How Life Begins, winner of the 2023 Oregon Spirit Book Award for Nonfiction. She is also the illustrator of several other books, including Otis and Will Discover the Deep and Sea Without a Shore by Barb Rosenstock, The Fire of Stars by Kirsten W. Larson, and Red Rover by Richard Ho. Katherine regularly appears on local TV to discuss her latest nonfiction books and share engaging science and nature crafts for kids. She lives in western Oregon with her husband and sons, where she is busy writing and drawing her next books.

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