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