Kate Cosgrove is the #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator of A Day With No Words, published by Bloomsbury.

She is the recipient of a Dolly Gray Literature Award, a Highlights Foundation Scholarship, and a 5-time jury selected exhibitor at Original Art Annual Exhibition in New York City, and the 62nd Bologna Children’s Book Fair. For the 63rd Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Cosgrove both exhibited artwork and was a presenter.

Kate illustrated And the Bullfrogs Sing, a Bank Street Best Book of the Year and a Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award Honors book; The Dirt Book, which was a New York Public Library Best Book of the Year and was selected for the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List; and A Tree Is a Community, which recieved a Kirkus star; and My Pollinator Garden, was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection and an ALSC/ALA Notable Book.

With pencil-smudged fingers, Kate is usually hiding out with Walter the dog, and a few pet earthworms, in her slightly-haunted art studio.