Creating beautiful, science-based books that tell the story of the natural world.
Katherine Roy is an 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 Californiaβs 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 and Sea Without a Shore, 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
On Location in Bermuda!
What's it like to do research on location for a book? Join author Barb Rosenstock and author/illustrator Katherine Roy for this one-minute video as they peer into clumps of sargassum seaweed to watch the crawling frogfish, pinching crabs, and skittering shrimp that call this floating ecosystem home. This footage was filmed on location in 2022 during Barb and Katherineβs research trip to Bermuda.
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