Author Katherine Roy sitting on a log in an old growth forest.

Creating beautiful, science-based books that tell the story of the natural world.

Katherine Roy is the award-winning and best-selling author and illustrator of science-based books for children, including the Robert F. Sibert Honor Book Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California’s Farallon Islands, How to Be an Elephant: Growing Up in the African Wild, and Making More: How Life Begins. She is also the illustrator of numerous other books, including Otis and Will Discover the Deep, by Barb Rosenstock, Red Rover, by Richard Ho, and The Fire of Stars, by Kirsten W. Larson. She lives with her husband and sons in western Oregon, where she is busy writing and drawing her next books.

Represented by Stephen Barr at Writers House Literary Agency
Author Photos by Tim Stout

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