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Kate Banks

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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 so...more

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Average rating: 3.70 · 1,096 ratings · 326 reviews · 35 distinct works

	Max's Words by Kate Banks, Boris Kulikov (Illustrator) 4.16 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Cat Who Walked Across France by Kate Banks, Georg Hallensleben (Illustrator) 3.90 avg rating — 81 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Max's Castle by Kate Banks, Boris Kulikov (Illustrator) 3.67 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Close Your Eyes (New York Times Best Illustrated Books (Awards)) by Kate Banks, Georg Hallensleben (Illustrations) 3.88 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Max's Dragon by Kate Banks, Boris Kulikov (Illustrator) 3.41 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Lenny's Space 3.68 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Eraserheads by Kate Banks, Boris Kulikov (Illustrator) 3.25 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	And If the Moon Could Talk by Kate Banks, Georg Hallensleben (illustrator) 3.98 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Fox by Kate Banks, Georg Hallensleben (Illustrations) 3.71 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Dillon Dillon 3.84 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	My rating: